“…Moreover, remission from a categorical diagnosis of BPD does not imply that remitted patients are healthy. As with adults, poor functional outcomes persist for years in individuals who showed borderline features in adolescence, including increased risk for substance use and mood disorders, interpersonal problems, poorer quality of life, and higher levels of general distress (Crawford et al., ; Winograd et al., ), service utilization (Cailhol et al., ), and increased rates of pain, physical illness, and mortality over time (Chen et al., ).…”