What Causes Borderline Personality Disorder?
The
next question that arises is, 'What causes
borderline personality disorder?'
Borderline personality disorder is caused by early childhood abuse. When a mother provides steady care and love during the first six months of a baby's life, the baby looks up at her mother's smiling face, hears her soothing voice, feels the warmth of her embrace, etc., and her amygdala - the emotional control center of her brain - develops normally, and then hardens.
If on the other hand the baby is abused during her first six months of life, her amygdala doesn't develop normally before it hardens, and the baby grows up to be petrified of rejection and unable to regulate her emotions.
Can borderline personality disorder be cured?
In Kristin's case, because the borderline personality disorder seemed to be in just the protector alter, if the protector alter integrates, her borderline personality disorder should resolve as well, although I do not know how that works with her amygdala since her brain only has one. What I was pretty certain about was that Kristin's other alters did not exhibit the symptoms of borderline personality disorder.
Even if the protector alter doesn't integrate and even if her hardened amygdala cannot be unhardened, re-formed and properly hardened, there were two ways in which Kristin could be cured of borderline personality disorder. First, what is impossible with man is possible with God. Jesus, who created her and her amygdala, could instantly heal her amygdala, as He instantly healed lame feet, gave sight to the blind, and even raised the dead.
Second, Jesus could heal her daily, as He healed Leslie Dickerson. The account of this lady being healed of borderline personality disorder is on the next page.