Is Borderline Personality Disorder a Mental Illness?
Yes. A
mental illness is an illness that primarily affects a person’s
behaviour, as opposed to their physical well-being. BPD is considered by
medical practitioners to be a severe psychiatric disorder and is
recognised as such by the DSM IV.
Often,
mental illness is not taken as seriously as physiological illness, even
though it is very common and can be very debilitating. It is often
viewed as moodiness, craziness or a weakness, when it is in fact a
genuine illness that can be caused by physiological factors. People have
as little control over the development of a mental illness as they do
over whether they catch a cold or not. As with physical illness, mental
illness requires treatment, and is not something that someone can just
will to go away.
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