Hey, team.

Long time lurker, first time poster and all that.

I'm a psychiatrist working with substance abusing adolescents, and many of these young folks are BPDers. I am a child/adolescent psychiatrist and have worked with BPD for my whole career, and I am very confident in my capacity to recognize/diagnose BPD when I see it, at any age.

I have been diagnosing BPD a ton recently and having a lot of really nice conversations with these young people about BPD and the way seeing their symptoms with this lens might be helpful for their recovery. I generally allow people to read the DSM criteria and decide for themselves if they apply to them.

I am curious to hear from you all:

1) do you think informing people who clearly meet criteria for BPD, generally 14-25 yo, is a helpful intervention unto itself? Most of these people have never heard of BPD for what it's worth.

2) what tools (in the absolute broadest sense of the term--youtube videos, articles, books, techniques, advice, warnings, ANYTHING) would you recommend I provide to these young people to help them as much as possible in the very limited time that I have [maybe 3 hours in total].

Also AMA or whatever if you want.

Really appreciate any thoughtful answers. I promise you I will use them.