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Help for partners and parents of people with Borderline Personality Disorder – Non-BPDs by Bon Dobbs

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  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Other Disorders

    What’s the difference between borderline personality disorder and bipolar?

    February 7, 2019 / No Comments

    People sometimes confuse borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder because they can have similar symptoms, such as intense emotional responses, depression, and impulsive behavior. Borderline personality disorder vs. bipolar disorder BPD is a type of personality disorder that causes people to feel, think, relate, and behave differently than people without the condition. Bipolar disorder is a type of mood disorder, which is a category of illnesses that can cause severe mood changes. People with BPD experience an ongoing cycle of varying self-image, moods, and behaviors. These patterns typically cause issues that affect a person’s life and relationships and the way in which they understand and relate to others. READ THE…

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    Amber Portwood: Why I Changed My Mind About Having Another Baby

    November 20, 2017 / No Comments

    Diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder meant she had to be on medication that could harm a fetus. Amber Portwood: Why I Changed My Mind About Having Another Baby By Sophie Dweck and Carly Sloane November 8, 2017 A baby wasn’t supposed to be in Amber Portwood’s picture. Nine years after welcoming Leah at age 18, the star of MTV’s Teen Mom OG (season 7 premieres November 27, 9 p.m.) knew she couldn’t get pregnant. Diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder meant she had to be on medication that could harm a fetus. But after calling off her wedding with Matt Baier and embarking on a…

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  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Other Disorders

    Borderline or Bipolar: Can 3 Questions Differentiate Them?

    January 11, 2017 / No Comments

    The Prisoner’s Dilemma paradigm separates the two, but that’s not practical as a clinical tool. Borderline or Bipolar: Can 3 Questions Differentiate Them? January 10, 2017 | Bipolar Disorder, Mood Disorders By James Phelps, MD Treatments for borderlinity and bipolarity are quite different. Which approach should you consider for a patient with impulsive risk-taking, episodes of irritability and hostility, fractured relationships, substance use problems, and severe depressions with brief phases of remission (maybe too good?) in between? The Prisoner’s Dilemma paradigm separates the two,1 but that’s not practical as a clinical tool. What if you could pluck just 3 items from a standard bipolar screening questionnaire and increase your diagnostic…

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    Healing with paint: How the pioneer of art therapy helped millions of mental health patients

    September 8, 2016 / No Comments

    Lisa Buttery, a 25-year-old artist who works at Brighton University, shares Molloy’s experiences. She has been dealing with borderline personality disorder since her teens, and has used art in therapy and as a creative outlet. Healing with paint: How the pioneer of art therapy helped millions of mental health patients Edward Adamson was the first artist to be employed in a UK hospital. Kashmira Gander explores how his studio was an oasis of calm in a harsh twentieth century mental hospital, and how his legacy lives on. Kashmira Gander @kashmiragander Wednesday 7 September 2016 It is the late 1990s and once again Gary Molloy’s severe bipolar disorder has hospitalised him.…

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  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Other Disorders

    A Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders

    September 8, 2016 / 1 Comment

    The author deftly explores the overlapping symptoms of mixed bipolar symptoms, anxiety disorders, borderline personality disorders, ADHD, and major depression. A Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders September 06, 2016 | Film And Book Reviews, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Major Depressive Disorder, Mood Disorders By Tammas Kelly, MD A Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders: Not Fully Bipolar but Not Unipolar—Practical Management by James Phelps, MD; New York: WW Norton and Company, 2016 255 pages • $32.00 (hardcover) In A Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders, Dr Jim Phelps bravely enters territory that academia has largely neglected—the nebulous region between full bipolar disorder and major depression. This is where so many of our patients…

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  • Borderline Personality Disorder

    Borderline or Bipolar: Objective Data Support a Difference

    April 20, 2016 / No Comments

    When euthymic bipolar patients played (ostensibly with another person, though the actual partner was a computer), they made choices very like control patients, choosing to cooperate almost 75% of the time. But patients with BPD cooperated only about 50% of the time (ANOVA difference, P = .03). Borderline or Bipolar: Objective Data Support a Difference News | April 12, 2016 | Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality, DSM-5 By James Phelps, MD When a patient presents with episodes of depression, irritability, and emotional lability (especially tears and anger, with rapid changes), might he or she have borderline personality disorder (BPD)? Or could it be rapid cycling bipolar disorder (BD)? Although there are…

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