Borderline Personality Disorder — 6 signatures. Status: rejected.
We call for BPD to be removed from the classification of mental illness. Personality disturbance should not automatically be medicalised. Its classification can misdirect limited mental-health resources and contribute to stigma, misdiagnosis and inappropriate care and NHS resources.
This petition calls for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) to be reconsidered as a mental health condition. We believe BPD is a personality disturbance rather than a mental illness and that its current classification can lead to stigma, inappropriate treatment and inefficient use of limited mental-health resources. We are calling for a review of its classification and for alternative, individualised approaches that focus on people's actual needs and circumstances.
View this petition on the official UK Parliament website