Can someone be born with borderline personality disorder?

No one is born with borderline personality disorder. ... Of course being highly sensitive does not mean a person will develop BPD. ... read more

While BPD and other personality disorders may have some initial grounding in nature (for example, recent fMRI studies suggest people with BPD may have less grey matter in areas that control the fear response while having too much in the fear center—the amygdala— which might control the impulsive reactions to negative emotions), however much the disorder comes from nurture. read more

But you can if you have borderline personality disorder-- that's the condition that Hollywood loves to scare the shit out of men with in movies like Fatal Attraction. Any movie of that "woman seems OK at first, turns out to be an obsessive psycho!" genre is actually portraying someone with BPD. read more

Trailer– CAUSES OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER. That’s a question frequently asked by people who meet the diagnostic criteria and by people who have a loved one with this confusing mental health condition. No one is born with borderline personality disorder. read more

No one is born with borderline personality disorder. Rather, it’s a slow developing and ongoing saga, marked by many challenging episodes that occur well before “full blown” BPD is revealed. And as with any story, there is a beginning. read more