I sometimes wonder the same thing.

My P doc says that's exactly what its cause from. If you think about it, why else would we be this way?

I was sexually abused, emotionally, verbally and nonverbally. and neglected. I ended up depressed and anxious. i did all the work to get the feelings, thoughts, and beliefs in order, so now feel content.

I was raped @ 13 by a cousin. And was, I wouldn't say neglected, but always compared to my older, prettier, smarter sister. To this day, I am compared to her.
So I'd have to say yeah, being abused in anyway, shape or form would almost have to play a role in the way we are now.

My grandfather moved in with us when i was 8. i distinctly remember that time as when i started to feel terribly anxious. but i told no one.

Gramps tried repeatedly during the 10 yrs he was in our home to molest me overtly. most of it was verbal and emotional with him. he did manage to fondle me when i was 14 or15 and that's the year my daddy put a lock on my bedroom door and the bathroom door. i didn't tell daddy why i wanted these locks..i used the excuse "i'm afraid someone will break in to our house, so i'd feel safer with locking doors".

my first husband was really verbally and emotionally abusive. just a mean SOB. pushed my buttons constantly to see how much i could take before snapping. we have been divorced for 11 yrs.

then, i had a relationship with a man i thought i could trust-wrong!!! he cheated on me multiple times. that just about crushed me. he just up and disappeared one evening.

just got told by my fiance' that my illnesses are "too overwhelming ". meaning, if i have to go back to the hospital, it takes away from HIS fun.

so, now i have huge abandonment issues and am very codependent and also anxious about that next person leaving me.

oh, i forgot to mention that my parents died a month apart....i haven't been the same in any way since. The bf cheating on me was about the last straw for me.

I have chronic abuse history and neglect from childhood, I've experienced attempted gang rape, gang rape, rape, attempted rape and assualts over the ages of about 7 to mid 20s.
My story can be read in my journal dated sat 31st May and by viewing my current journals

Yes, abuse lead to my BPD.

I think there is some truth to that. It seems that the therapy group and the groups I was in when I was in the hospital 90 percent had some kind of phyiscal, emotional or sexual abuse in their history. Sexual abuse seemed to be most seen, but there was also physical abuse and emotional abuse issues with people.
I also have noticed a pattern that normal life for me anyway seems a lot harder then other people who have not experined any abuse. I started that topic a little on my group page borderlinesancturary if anyone is interested in checking it out. Its under my story. Yeah it just seems like there is a lot of correlations between personality disorders and abuse.

I was emotionally, physically and sexually abused as a child

I think I was abused, but not with hiting or yelling but the lack of. When I was young, I didn't talk til I was almost 4 because I was always alone at home. I had to entertain myself and do things on my own. That is why I am quiet and non sociable.

When I was 10, my grandpa tried stuff on me and when I had sex for the first time, I was raped. I haven't told hardly anyone this. Not even my own mother knows. I don't think she could handle it even after all these years. My grandfather is deceased though now. He molested some of his daughters and who knows how many grandchildren.

I think having a very authorative and domineering mother growing up also contributed to my BPD. I think that had the most profound impact on me to this day.

I was sexually abused, for many years. I wonder why abuse leads to personality disorders

Nope I was not abused in any way, shape or form and had a very functional family. However, I always had a very sensitive temperament and I was adopted so my p.d. might have been caused even just from that, from being born ultra sensitive and having been adopted and having a disrupted attachment. The bpd and npd in me is mild but I believe if I had been abused I would be really severely emotionally disturbed. I think people develop personality disorders because they are more sensitive than other people and they respond to their environment based on that ultra sensitivity. You can't help how sensitive you are by nature. Many people are abused and don't develop personality disorders but these people may have easy-going temperaments. My psychiatrist recently told me that it is now suspected that personality disorders may have a biological basis to them. But I certainly have no other explanation based on my childhood...nothing bad happened to me growing up I was treated quite well in my opinion.

I was raped 3 times......my therapist decided I had BPD, and not bipolar, based on that, waiting for a pdoc to verify, and adjust meds.

I was emotionaly and physicaly abused but not by anyone person. People at school made it hell. I was the sweet little boy who's feelings were hurt easily, who was beaten up, had his lunch taken, was pushed down papers a books kicked all over. Nobody helped me...they all laughed. I used to fake being sick as much as possible so I wouldn't have to go face them all.
This whent on for years...until I had enouph...snaped...and then became a mean bitter person. I think thats why I have trouble trusting people.
Most of the time I will hurt people before they get the chance to hurt me.

It's funy...I still remember all of there faces.
I guess I can see a link...but I don't think it coused my PD's. It probably nurtured them though.