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It's extremely complicated, but there's probably a mix of genetic and environmental factors involved in Personality Disorder development. It's kind of impossible to know exactly what the demographic qualities of pre-Borderline children are because there's really no ethical way to explore who develops BPD following exposure to correlated factors and who doesn't, but a predisposition to emotional dysregulation is probably involved. Mental illnesses rarely have clear-cut boundaries, and I suspect (although this is just me speculating) that conditions with heavy symptom overlap can predispose someone to developing a PD. Some of them show high comorbidity, including ADHD and Bipolar Disorder, but it's hard to know if this is due to raising the risk of PD development, sharing a common physical cause with PDs, or a case of inverted causation where the PD causes the comorbidity.That's concerning... But does it all stem (or can, at least) from initial depression or inability to focus and such? My main issue with the mental illnesses is that they kinda have similar stuff and overlap a lot so one can never really now because it's not clear cut
And yeah, it's legitimately pretty disturbing that so many cases are probably missed. Population studies show a gender ratio of actual illness that is comfortably within a rounding error of being 50/50, while clinical diagnosis has a 25/75 ratio. It's not great that you pretty much have to suspect you have the condition in order to be evaluated, considering that it's an ego syntonic disorder that nobody suspects they might have until shit gets all kinds of fucked.