The authors discussed about the prevalence occurrence of borderline personality disorder in United States of America. The prevalence occurrence is around 11% among those in the age of 9 to 19 and 7 to 8% among those in the age of 11 to 21 years old (Lieb, Zanarini, Schmahl, Linehan & Bohus, 2004). This shows that the borderline personality disorder is more common among young adults and adolescents. Nevertheless, the data is unable to generalize to other population as the data only represents those from United States of America. Individuals from different social and background experience different things from each other. Thus, what is experienced in United States of America may differ in other countries and this decrease the generality of the data provided by the authors about the prevalence occurrence of borderline personality
The authors discussed about the prevalence occurrence of borderline personality disorder in United States of America. The prevalence occurrence is around 11% among those in the age of 9 to 19 and 7 to 8% among those in the age of 11 to 21 years old (Lieb, Zanarini, Schmahl, Linehan & Bohus, 2004). This shows that the borderline personality disorder is more common among young adults and adolescents. Nevertheless, the data is unable to generalize to other population as the data only represents those from United States of America. Individuals from different social and background experience different things from each other. Thus, what is experienced in United States of America may differ in other countries and this decrease the generality of the data provided by the authors about the prevalence occurrence of borderline personality