BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER DISCUSSION  Explain the controversy that surrounds Borderline personality disorder

BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER DISCUSSION  Explain the controversy that surrounds Borderline personality disorder

The controversy surrounding borderline personality disorder is the stand it holds due to the stigma associated with the process of clinical diagnosis and the associated therapeutic nihilism, which is based on the side of the practitioners, on patients with high prevalence to this condition. There is a lot of discussion going around whether this personality disorder, should be diagnosed in the first place (Lewis, 2009). With their proponents, suggesting that there is a high cultural significance, and it is important for people to get treatment of borderline personality disorder, because it is a very treatable condition, where, if given the appropriate clinical attention, full recovery is possible.