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Borderline Personality Disorder Is A Real Mental Illness
I continue to receive lots of questions and comments about whether borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a "real" mental illness. These questions are understandable; BPD has a very long history...
Discuss Your Experiences With Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
Have you tried dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder? What was your experience? Was it helpful? Dialectical behavior therapy is a hot topic in the borderline personality disorder forum;...
The Overlap Between Borderline Personality Disorder and Eating Disorders
Eating disorders and borderline personality frequently occur together, but until recently, very little was known about the relationship between borderline personality disorder (BPD) and eating disorder conditions. Recent research, however,...
Faster Acting Antidepressants on the Way?
Many people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are taking antidepressant medications-- BPD has a high rate of co-occurrence with depression, and some of the symptoms of BPD (e.g., feelings of...
Readers in the U.S: What Can You Do to Help a Loved One with BPD Today? Vote!
Mental health care is woefully inadequate in the United States. If you live in the U.S. and have borderline personality disorder or love someone who does, please do not forget...
Dissociative Identity Disorder and BPD
Have you heard of dissociative identity disorder, or DID? Few people are familiar with DID; it is a rare psychological condition that can co-occur with borderline personality disorder (perhaps because...
Is Borderline Personality Disorder in Your Genes?
For a long time, even experts thought that borderline personality disorder (BPD) was largely caused by the environment. New research, however, suggests that BPD has a very substantial genetic component....
Experts Argue That Borderline Personality Disorder Should Be Shifted to Axis I
In a recent paper published in Biological Psychiatry, Dr. Antonia New and her colleagues at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Bronx VA Medical Center argue the case for...
Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder Improves Family Life
A new study has found that, not surprisingly, treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD) doesn't just help the person with BPD, it may also help their family members.
Dr....
New Treatment to Reduce Self-Harm Being Offered
Dr. Kim L. Gratz and colleagues at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi are offering a new group treatment designed to reduce self-harm behaviors as part of...
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