Originally Posted by
BlueSkies1 
Oh I get that Florence, that it is considered a lifetime sentence...it's all on me that I don't like labels for that very reason, alcoholic, NPD, etc., for me personally, I don't look at things written in stone unless they are written in stone...just my very personal views about not looking at life as black and white with no wiggle room for gray, or personal change.
Newer fMRI scans are showing up that generally the Long Term "Personality" Disorders are sort of Hardware Brain Malfunctions.
So while it is not written in stone, as you say, it is a real physical condition to over come with major rework of emotional and relationship behaviors.
Nature, in this case, does not favor recovery.