For the past several months, both here on the blog and in our BPD forum, we've been having a conversation about the name "borderline personality disorder," the stigma associated with the name, and whether a name change could help reduce stigma. Now that the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM-V) is drawing closer, this is an important conversation to be having!
This site is not the only one that is generating interest on the topic. Check out this article by Elizabeth Bogod on stigma and BPD published on the Borderline Personality Disorder Today website.
Ms. Bogod has also started a petition targeted at the chair of the DSM-V task force to ask for a name change. If you want to sign the petition, take action here.
didn’t a well know writer say something to the effect of a rose by any other name etc. Does changing the name of a stigma really ever change it?