Xannie and Alex sit down with Dr. Lois Choi-Kain to talk in-depth about what we currently know about BPD Recovery and Treatment! Dr. Choi-Kain is the Director of the Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute at McLean Hospital, and an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In this Episode: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:43 - Why Relationships take Longer to Improve 00:06:08 - Self Compassion and Stress 00:07:30 - Being Human & Rate of Relapse in BPD 00:09:52 - BPD & Avoidant tendencies 00:13:15 - How Relationships Help BPD Recovery 00:15:24 - Recovery Rates in BPD 00:22:38 - Thoughts on The Clinical Definition of Recovery 00:27:51 - What is Good Psychiatric Management? 00:33:43 - How Work/Meaningful Activity Helps BPD Recovery 00:42:41 - Why it's Important to Have Relationships of Varying Intensity 00:51:00 - Don't Wait to Feel OK to Live Your Life 00:53:55 - Over-focus on Safety at the Expense of Learning. 00:56:24 - Differentiating Between Self Harm as Coping and True Risk to Life. 🌟 Love what we do? Your support fuels these important conversations on BPD and mental health. Consider joining our Patreon community to help us continue this valuable work and unlock exclusive content. Every contribution makes a difference! 🌈✨ 🔗 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thebpdbunch ________ About Us: The BPD bunch is a YouTube talk show, featuring a panel of people who are in functional recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder. Each week we discuss BPD-related topics to help give you insights into the different ways BPD can be expressed in someone’s life. We also cover the different paths we followed on our recovery journeys to give you hope and direction for your own ❤️ Thank you for being on this journey of healing with us! ________ Disclaimer: Although several of our panelists work in the mental health field, we are all coming to you as people in functional recovery from BPD, and are not here to provide professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Instead, we hope that by sharing our stories and what was helpful for us, you can gain some insight and direction into your own recovery ❤️‍🩹