Hey, team. 

I made this post before without checking with the mods properly beforehand, and I apologize for that. Greatly appreciative that the mods gave me a second chance and allowed me to post again.

Long time lurker, first time poster.

I'm a psychiatrist working with substance abusing adolescents (and adults), and many of these 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 essentially 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 [so far the lowest was 8/9].

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. I'm especially curious now about negative experiences here, and what you think it would've taken to have made it positive.

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 with them [maybe 3 hours in total; usually closer to 1h].

I will also try to answer any general questions you may have, but I will be careful not to give any specific advise in this thread/subreddit, as that is not the purpose of /r/BPD and one should seek professional help in their own community for their personal care.

Really appreciate any thoughtful answers. I promise you I will use them. My original post already had so many wonderful replies and I'm so grateful for them. I can't wait to see what more y'all can give me.

I also hope that this thread can serve as a guidepost for future people looking for tools to facilitate their own recovery.

Thanks all.