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Having seen the ability the people in the BPD thread have shown to help each other both in general terms and in issues specific to the disorder, I think it's a great thing which seems to work really well. I don't know what more to say than that.

Edit: Thought of more, hehe. Speaking specifically about BPD/the BPD thread, it's not an uncommon diagnosis for people on RYL, and I think it can be helpful to have resources/some of the people who experience things similarly easily found. I often see threads in MHD by people who are newly diagnosed and struggling to come to terms with it, and it's nice to be able to point them to somewhere where there's a large number of people who have dealt with similar issues. That's not to say it's a replacement for individual threads on BPD-related issues, which people are still free to post. It's also nice, as Carrie said, that it's not totally illness oriented - it's a chance for people to check in with each other about all sorts of things, and a place where people motivate each other.