A commonly asked question in Google when it comes to BPD is: **“Can BPD be cured?”**  I remember typing this exact phrase out myself and spending HOURS down the interweb rabbit hole. 

This search will return thousands of results. Many of which claim that **BPD is an “incurable disease.”** The best one can hope for is for their BPD to **“go into remission.”** 

Incurable and medically/scientifically proven diseases and autoimmune disorders (i.e., lupus, multiple sclerosis, and various forms of cancer) *can* go into remission. 

Let me make this very clear: **personality 👏 disorders 👏 are 👏not👏 diseases 👏.**

Something the average person isn’t aware of is this: the diagnostic criteria for all mental health disorders are decided upon by an elite group of (mostly white male) psychiatrists who sit around a table and *VOTE* upon what should be included and what shouldn’t be included. They *VOTE.* 

Any person, mental health professional, or resource that uses terminology like “cured,” “disease,” or “remission,” when it comes to the human personality is \*medicalizing\* human suffering and emotions. This binary and medicalized view isn’t helping us as a society (or as pwBPD). It’s harming us.

**This medicalized model is not interested in WHY we suffer from our symptoms.** Experiences of emptiness, and unhappiness are listed as "disordered" behavior rather than **NATURAL** and **NORMAL** human reactions to **systemic** and **traumatic** issues/occurrences that need to be **CHANGED** and **ADDRESSED**.

**What this post is NOT meant to do is invalidate you if you identify with BPD symptomology** or if you have been formally diagnosed. **Diagnostic labels can be great “maps”.** They can point us in the direction of the right forms of therapy and skills that can help us grow and change.

**The most empowering thing we can do as people who identify with BPD symptomology is identify the symptoms we’er experiencing, become aware of our self-sabotaging behaviors and seek trauma-informed care from a professional who believes that ANYONE is capable of growth and change.** 

BPD isn’t curable or incurable. It is simply a group of words. But your suffering? THAT is very real. You are not disordered. You are not a lost cause. **There is no finish line of HEALED or CURED.** There is only heal-ING and grow-ING. And you know what else there is? **HOPE.** ❤️

Sending the biggest virtual hugs to you, my fellow BPD warrior.