bothan be usedgether. one of my patients sued it up well when she said, "in individual therapy, "i learn to understand myself, "but in group, "i have practic that understanding "over and over again, "and everything happens in group 1oo times icker because m doing so many things at once." because borderline patients often ve substance abuse problems, they need to have that treated concurrently. being involved in a.a. or n.a. provides a social support system which can be very helul. um...borderline patients oftentimes can profit from medications which will diminish so of the more acute distress which they feel and help them with crises. in a sense, the al with medication therapy is to try to lessen the symptoms or the degree of distress or the degree of chaos to...enough so that psychotherapy is possible, enou so that gradually over tim some of these controls can be intnalized through psychotherapy. so medication becomes a useful adjunct in a sense, in many cases, to make psychotherapy more possible or more