Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder:
Three Voices, One Conversation
May is Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month, and this year, we wanted to mark it differently.
Instead of a single perspective, we went looking for three. That of a psychologist, a psychiatrist and someone with lived experience.
So we spoke with Samriti Makkar Midha, a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and co-founder of Equilibrio Advisory LLP, whose work spans emotional regulation, workplace mental health, and inclusion; with Dr. Jyoti Sangle, a Mumbai-based psychiatrist with over 25 years of clinical experience and with someone who has lived with a BPD diagnosis for several years, bringing the kind of knowledge that no qualification can fully capture, to respond to the same three questions:
What do people need to understand about BPD?
What myth should we drop, right now?
And what’s worth keeping in mind when we think about BPD in the workplace?
What followed was honest, sometimes surprising, and often deeply human. Across training, clinical practice, and lived experience, these three voices don’t always say the same thing. And that’s exactly the point.
Take a look at these open responses below. We hope it opens something up for you, whether you’re a professional, a colleague, a loved one, or someone finding your own reflection in these words.
