smartascarrots:
This smacks more of desperation than a genuinely mitigating circumstance. It's not psychosis, BPD sufferers are still rational and accountable for their actions.
Clearly you haven't experienced a real manic episode or known someone suffering from one....my schoolteacher mum heading down to the dodgy pubs at the harbour looking for some action certainly was a rational action, probably why she was then sectioned...being rational and accountable and all that.
I didn't have huge expectations posting this in here, but if even one person takes the time to send an email then it was worth it.