>>81650741
Bpd is an mental illness precisely a personality characterized by two things:
1. emotional hypersensitivity stemming from a fundamentally different neurochemistry compared to the "average" person this is from birth to death as it is a neurological condition though you can treat it with anti-psychotics and also:L
2. poor self-esteem/superfluous and unstable identity which is usually caused by consistent extremely negative feedback from the environment during early childhood/adolescence usually caused by moderate to severe trauma

BPD is definitely a very real mental illness they have been treating it since the 80s but it probably existed even far before that for example Marsha Linehan famously had BPD and pioneered the first specialized treatments for it but in her time and before they just assumed that it was schizophrenia and treated it as such XDDD. But yes BPD is definitely a very real and debilitating illness 10% of diagnosed with it will die because of suicide and 75% of women diagnosed it will attempt suicide at least once in their lives also as: >>81652005 says though not concisely it does seem to be prevalent more so in women than female borderlines outnumber the borderline men by a 3:1 ratio though there are still lots of guys with BPD like me for example XDDD but yes you are right most people who self-diagnose with BPD or accuse someone of BPD traits they don't really have bpd though they can 'borderline traits' but that's not the same as BPD which is both psychodynamical and neurological and a really really fucked and debilitating illness