Five years after discharge from mentalization-based treatment , the mentalization-based treatment by partial hospitalization group continued to show clinical and statistical superiority to treatment as usual on suicidality ( 23 % versus 74 % ) , diagnostic status ( 13 % versus 87 % ) , service use ( 2 years versus 3.5 years of psychiatric outpatient treatment ) , use of medication ( 0.02 versus 1.90 years taking three or more medications ) , global function above 60 ( 45 % versus 10 % ) , and vocational status ( employed or in education 3.2 years versus 1.2 years ) .
