No luck needed , just money . <| sep |> I believe that you can definitely attain a mental disorder especially from trauma ! So if you undergo trauma , your brain is likely to change and pathways to be formed and a person would gain heightened sense of ' fight or flight ', which is found in BPD and PTSD . Especially in childhood trauma when a person doesn ' t have the full capacity or knowledge to process what is occurring and then the brain just makes up for the lack of understanding by putting in place a shoddy defense mechanism which can be extreme emotion to act as warning sirens to get out of a situation or to fight a situationwhere it may not be warranted , but the brain just reacts that way now because it just wants to save you from danger . And various other things ! All leading to the brain basically malfunctioning . I would attribute my BPD to a delayed reaction to the trauma of my father leaving and never coming back , which I clearly did not process very well as a child and so it came out later in the form of me almost regressing to childhood , except a new childhood where I was highly emotional and needy and angry . It ' s all interesting when you think about it ! It would be useful to know in the case of if a pwBPD raises their own children .