Healing From Borderline Personality Disorder
One
of the hurdles to healing from borderline personality disorder is that
many of the psychiatrists who list borderline personality disorder as one of
their areas of expertise are incompetent. About 25% of them are said to be mentally ill
themselves,
studied psychiatry to better understand themselves, remain unhealed, and bring
their own baggage into and get triggered during the sessions to treat borderline
personality disorder patients.
Another hurdle is that borderline personality disorder patients are so difficult to work with that they wear out even the competent psychiatrists. One of them shared with me that he never treats more than one borderline personality disorder patient per week, only for one session, and when the patient leaves, immediately has a session for himself to be counseled by a psychiatrist colleague so that he can dissipate the burden of treating the borderline personality disorder patient, lest he retain them and develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) over time.
Still another hurdle to healing from borderline personality disorder is that there are very few Christian psychiatrists who view Christians suffering from borderline personality disorder as wounded members of the body of Christ to minister to with their God-given skills, let alone treat them Biblically. Most 'Christian' psychiatrists see these sufferers as customers and do not treat them if they cannot pay, and/or make them worse by 'treating' them with New Age paganism parading as psychiatry.
There are far more (Christian) psychiatrists who treat (former) spouses of borderline personality disorder sufferers because they are easier to treat and have money to pay; most borderline personality disorder sufferers have trouble holding down jobs and have limited financial resources.
But the greatest hurdle to healing from borderline personality disorder is that its sufferers are loathe to admit that they suffer from it because such admission would mean that something is wrong with them, in which case people would have a reason to reject them. Because the fear of rejection is so deeply ingrained in borderline personality disorder sufferers, they cannot admit that something is wrong with them, hence the tendency to blame and project their issues onto other people.
Borderline personality disorder sufferers typically get very upset when they are advised to seek counseling. Even when they begin to attend counseling sessions, they tend to drop out after a few sessions instead of putting in the hard work of changing how they perceive, deal with their emotions, and behave.