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Walking on Eggshells
Teens With Borderline Personality Disorder
By Gwen Morrison
According to the Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation, the seriousness of BPD is compounded by the fact that it is difficult to treat. The very characteristics of the disorder – unstable relationships, intense anger – interfere with establishing the therapeutic relationship that is necessary for treatment. Unfortunately, despite the devastating nature of this disorder, BPD has not received the scientific and clinical attention that other health and psychiatric problems of equal, or even lesser, level of disability have received.