scholarly journals Sexual Orientation and Relationship Choice in Borderline Personality Disorder Over Ten Years of Prospective Follow-Up

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 564-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Bradford Reich ◽  
Mary C. Zanarini
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Borderline Personality

Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

2018 ◽  
pp. 117-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary C. Zanarini
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Important Goal ◽  
Symptomatic Recurrence ◽  
Borderline Patients ◽  
Vocational Functioning ◽  
Symptomatic Remission

As important as our findings concerning the high rates of symptomatic remission and low rates of symptomatic recurrence are, the rates of recovery are even more important. This is so because we defined “recovery” as concurrent symptomatic remission and good social and good full-time vocational functioning. After 10 years of prospective follow-up, 50% of borderline patients achieved this important goal. After 16 years of prospective follow-up, 60% of borderline patients achieved this key outcome. In general, recovery is more difficult to achieve and maintain than remission. Two vignettes are presented in this chapter. The first deals with a patient who remitted but never recovered, and the second deals with a patient who both remitted and recovered.

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