re: 12 Year Old Girl with BPD

Talk therapy is the best proven technique, but it is significantly more effective for female patients than male. Talk therapy is great for understanding fears, insecurities, and triggers for those feelings that one interacts with in their daily lives. However, that’s often only part of improving one’s situation. People also need to improve their habits and behaviors, not just learn what drives them. Some patients, myself included, need a more active and proactive approach. Talk therapy was useless for me. I needed HELP and guidance. I was barely juggling a life that was actively falling apart, and I needed to learn how to fix my behaviors to stabilize my situation and start addressing mental illness symptoms and problems one at a time.