The View’s Joy Behar Stigmatizes Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder has long been the most stigmatized mental illness. Add to this now The View Co-host Joy Behar stigmatizing Borderline Personality Disorder ever further. On The View’s Wednesday October 21, 2009 show in an interview with Glenn Close and her sister who were guests to talk about the importance of combating the stigma against mental illness, namely Bioplar Disorder, which Close’s sister has. Joy Behar, for some reason, who knows why, first had to further stigmatize BPD with inaccurate, uneducated information.

Is Your BPD Loved One Serious About Therapy?

Is Your BPD Loved One Serious About Therapy? – What Every Family Member and Loved One with Someone With BPD in Their Lives Needs to Know – BPD and Life Coach A.J. Mahari stresses that it is important for any family member or relationship partner of borderline to be able to evaluate how their loved one with borderline personality disorder (BPD) is progressing in terms of recovery, if in fact they are in therapy. It is equally as important for the family member or relationship partner of the person with BPD to understand that if the borderline in his or her life isn’t in therapy and continues to choose to not face their issues there is absolutely no way to effect change in that person. This is, for many, in and of itself, a crucial thing to radically accept and often is a pivotal choice point as well.

Borderline Personality Disorder – Acceptance of Paradox & Recovery

It is the acceptance of the paradoxical irony of the core wound of abandonment coupled with the abandoned pain of BPD that is both the cause and at the epicenter of recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). It is the paradox of radical acceptance of BPD that is the epicenter of realizing the awareness necessary to get on the road to recovery.