Borderline Personality: Evidence Has Evolved. Care Hasn’t
Through adolescence and early adulthood, Lindsay Dow cycled through intensive psychotherapy, repeated hospitalizations, and medications that doctors kept adding or changing — none of it holding.Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 13, she spent years in care that never seemed to address the emotional volatility and instability that were upending her life.“I would go home, take the meds, and basically lie down in my bed and wait for my life to get better,” she recalled. Nearly a decade later, Dow c...