Each of us has it to a greater or lesser extent, but don’t call it a disorder: expert on common borderline problems
Borderline is a personality disorder. But it is above all a very broad concept, says Professor Benedicte Lowyck of the University Psychiatric Center in Leuven. The DSM-5, the classification system that maps all mental disorders, stipulates nine characteristics under the lemma ‘borderline’. Anyone who meets five of these can be diagnosed. “The DSM-5 is a … Read more