Thought this might interest you since it comments on some of the negativities surrounding the diagnosis. I am aware that there are some SH specific details in there, but thought that it might benefit forum posters with a personal take on this diagnosis. If you don't want to open the link, don't.
Lessons from the borderline: Anthropology, psychiatry, and the risks of being human.
http://fap.sagepub.com/content/23/1/70.full.pdf'I understand BPD somewhat differently than my clinical colleagues who see it as a dysfunction of personality and my academic colleagues who see it as a mechanism of social regulation. In my view, BPD does not reside within the individual person; a person stranded alone on a desert island cannot have BPD. Nor does it reside within diagnostic taxa; if we eliminated BPD from the DSM, people would still struggle with the cluster of issues captured in the diagnosis. Rather, BPD resides – and only resides – in relationship . BPD is a disorder of relationship, not of personality.'
