• Three quarters of people with BPD are female and usually within childbearing age.
• 70 to 80 % of patients meeting the diagnostic criteria for BPD self mutilate or self harm.
• One in ten BPD sufferers successfully completes a suicide attempt.
• BPD patients are recognised as responding poorly to treatment.
• BPD patients are generally thought to have a long term, poor quality of life.
• BPD has been associated with other conditions such as schizophrenia, several types of psychosis, other affective disorders and epilepsy.
• Very little research has been conducted to investigate BPD in men.
• BPD sufferers are reported to be very frequent users of mental health resources.
• Men with BPD compared with men suffering from other personality disorders have shown more evidence of dissociation, image distortion, frequency of childhood sexual abuse experiences, longer experiences of physical abuse and experiences of loss at an early age.
• Research suggests that male BPD patients are more regularly diagnosed with substance abuse problems than female BPD patients are.
• Only two personality disorders are associated with self-harm behaviour. One is BPD and the other is antisocial behaviour disorder.
• People who have BPD are more likely to self-harm for two reasons: a) as a response to impulsive urges and b) as part of a suicidal gesture.
• Research suggests that people with BPD frequently suffer from identity and interpersonal issues.
• At least 50% of BPD sufferers also suffer form major depressive disorder, dysthymia, or even both.
• It is very difficult to say weather a person with BPD's condition will change over time. Research has suggested that some people’s symptoms improve, some get worse and some remain unchanged.
• 11% of diagnosed BPD patients are treated in outpatient clinics.
• 20% of BPD patients spend time in psychiatric hospital.
• Between 40% and 70% of BPD patients report having been sexually abused, often by a non-care giver.
• Clinicians are often wrongly educated or under educated about BPD and BPD treatments.
• Approximately 2% of the population are affected by BPD.
