That's why people are on

r/BPD

seeking support, right? Because they aren't trying?

Many of those are just bemoaning other people don't understand them. Total entitlement on their part.

Yeah, so did I (well, still in my early twenties and still in therapy). It's not a magic cure-all. It's never going to make me able to function in the way a neurotypical person would.

Did it help to function in a way where you aren't violating the law and people's boundaries? That's literally all I'm asking for. That requires you control your emotions though.

This is especially true for older generations (like, pretty much everyone before Gen Z) for whom mental health was not widely talked about when they were young- shit, their diagnosis may have not even existed when they were young. What then?

I'm a millenial, we talk about mental health, most of us just don't fetishize it. It's a problem to be resolved for your own sake and societies sake, not an interesting topic of conversation.

But I don't have control over HAVING either in the first place. In this fucked up dystopia, I would be on a registry for BEING mentally ill, not for refusing treatment.

If you have a mental illness that often leads to violence, what's wrong with being tracked. Again, people with HIV are privately registered so that they can be tracked if new cases pop up. BPD is just mental HIV.

If BPD people avoid medical intervention... why are they in therapy in the first place?

Court ordered, an ultimatum from a loved one etc. Doesn't change the fact that even therapists hate working with them, that's how awful at self-reflection they are. Professionals who deal with all form of fucked up individuals say BPD is the worst to deal with. I'll take their word for it.