END DISCRIMINATION BY THE PSYCHIATRIC COMMUNITY TOWARDS PEOPLE DIAGNOSED WITH BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER WHICH IS BASED SOLELY ON THEIR DIAGNOSIS.  WE DESERVE TO TREATED LIKE INDIVIDUALS WE ARE ALL UNIQUE DESPITE OUR DIAGNOSIS AND WE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BE TREATED DESPITE HAVING BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER AND NOT HAVE TO LIE ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE JUST GET TREATMENT!!!

END BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER STIGMA NOW!

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is often viewed in negative terms by mental health practitioners and the public. The disorder may have a stigma associated with it that goes beyond those associated with other mental illnesses. The stigma associated with BPD may affect how practitioners tolerate the actions, thoughts, and emotional reactions of these individuals. It may also lead to minimizing symptoms and overlooking strengths. In society, people tend to distance themselves from stigmatized populations, and there is evidence that some clinicians may emotionally distance themselves from individuals with BPD. This distancing may be especially problematic in treating patients with BPD; in addition to being unusually sensitive to rejection and abandonment, they may react negatively (e.g., by harming themselves or withdrawing from treatment) if they perceive such distancing and rejection. Clinicians' reactivity may be self-protective in response to actual behavior associated with the pathology. As a consequence, however, the very behaviors that make it difficult to work with these individuals contribute to the stigma of BPD. In a dialectical relationship, that stigma can influence the clinician's reactivity, thereby exacerbating those same negative behaviors. The result is a self-fulfilling prophecy and a cycle of stigmatization to which both patient and therapist contribute. The extent to which therapist distancing is influenced by stigma is an important question that highlights the possibility that the stigma associated with BPD can have an independent contribution to poor outcome with this population. A final issue concerns the available means for identifying and limiting the impact of stigmatization on the treatment of individuals with BPD.

Read More: http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10673220600975121

ENOUGH!!! I HAVE BPD AND I CAN'T EVEN GET A THERAPIST BASED ON MY DIAGNOSIS UNLESS I OUT AND OUT LIE AND SAY I HAVE A DIFFERENT DIAGNOSIS JUST TO GET MY FOOT IN THE DOOR!! THIS SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN!! I AM A PERSON LIKE EVERYONE ELSE AND SHOULD BE JUDGED ACCORDINGLY!!