I have had training at a DBT residential treatment center when I was in high school and no longer have the outward symptoms of BPD, so the diagnosis has been taken off my chart. However, I still have a lot of the internal symptoms (even though it’s not as severe as it used to be).

I think the main one is a fear of abandonment. Without going into too much detail, I handled it very poorly as a teenager. Now I’m in my early 20s and see this a lot. Here are some examples:

A compulsive need to talk and get human interaction. I’m emotionally needy.

I also don’t do anything extreme so I control my behaviors, but I always get worried that someone doesn’t like me anymore or will abandon me if they take a while to reply, can’t hang out, etc. 

It’s driving me insane. And unfortunately, BPD is stigmatized. I’ve even met DBT therapists who stigmatize it. 

Is it possible to get rid of the emotional turmoil that BPD brings or treat it better? Or am I going to have to deal with this for the rest of my life?