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[quote=Anonymous]OP, my SIL has borderline personality disorder and has been hospitalized many times. She’s in her 50s now, but when she was younger she churned through friends and acquaintances until there was literally no one left. My DH and I have dealt with numerous legal issues because of her and are no-contact. She becomes more volatile as the years go on.

But I say that only to give you some background and credibility for what I’ll say next: SIL has had a fairly successful career as an adult. I think what has helped her success was that she was drawn to a field that requires mostly short-term contracts, is very creative and in which being mercurial/flighty/erratic is seen as a sign of one’s creativity. It is also mostly work-product driven vs. relationship-driven, so as long as her clients’ contracts are fulfilled, she gets paid.

I hope you can get your DD to a place where she isn’t a danger to herself, because there is more room in the world than you would think for people with personality disorders. I do think my SIL would have turned out differently if adults had actively helped her more in her late tweens and 20s versus just enabling/mollifying her to keep her from blowing up at them.[/quote]

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