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Is Bipolar Disorder Really the Cause of Your Mood Swings?
Those with Borderline Personality Disorder report the extreme mood reactivity and mood lability. Is Bipolar Disorder Really the Cause of Your Mood Swings? Dr. Matt Goldenberg D.O. I believe the public has a major misconception regarding which symptoms are consistent with bipolar disorder and which are not. It is evident when patients present for an initial psychiatric evaluation because they (or their family and friends) are worried that they are “bipolar.” However, in many cases, the symptoms they report are often consistent with a completely different class of diagnoses. It is easy to confuse major depressive disorder (MDD), bipolar disorder and many of the personality disorders because they can all…
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Cold Inside and Out
Mood lability and interpersonal sensitivity traits appear to be related by a cyclothymic temperamental diathesis which, in turn, appears to underlie the complex pattern of anxiety, mood and impulsive disorders which atypical depressive, bipolar II and borderline patients display clinically. The role of cyclothymia in atypical depression: toward a data-based reconceptualization of the borderline–bipolar II connection Giulio Perugia, Cristina Tonib, Maria Chiara Traviersoa, Hagop S. Akiskalc Abstract Objective: Recent data, including our own, indicate significant overlap between atypical depression and bipolar II. Furthermore, the affective fluctuations of patients with these disorders are difficult to separate, on clinical grounds, from cyclothymic temperamental and borderline personality disorders. The present analyses are part…
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How to Identify Bipolar and Borderline Personality Disorders
Identifying which disorder an individual has is an important step in determining the correct treatment How to Identify Bipolar and Borderline Personality Disorders By Denise DeWitt Bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder are two different conditions that are often confused with each other because both include some similar symptoms. Identifying which disorder an individual has is an important step in determining the correct treatment Borderline Personality Disorder Individuals with borderline personality disorder, or BPD, experience a pattern of swings but they also have difficulty in other areas of life including relationships, self-image and behavior. They are often at risk of having other mental health problems, and it is more likely…
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Bipolar Is Not Contagious (neither is Borderline)
When telling anyone that you have a severe mental illness, whether it be Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective or even Borderline Personality Disorder, they automatically assume you are crazy and they want nothing to do with you. Bipolar Is Not Contagious By REBECCA MOORE ~ 2 min read I can remember as a child not having very many friends. People avoided me right from the beginning of my life. Even my own parents and my brother. They knew something was just a bit off, a bit different and they wanted no part of whatever it was. Had I been given parents who weren’t so ignorant to mental illness, maybe at a…
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Ask a Psychiatrist: How Does Silver Linings Playbook Handle Mental Illness?
Ask a Psychiatrist: How Does Silver Linings Playbook Handle Mental Illness? By Gwynne Watkins It’s to be expected that one (or both) of a romantic comedy’s protagonists will go a little crazy in some way. Silver Linings Playbook takes things a step further: Bradley Cooper’s character, Pat, is newly released from a mental hospital, and his romantic foil Tiffany (played by Jennifer Lawrence) is battling her own demons. Neither, however, has the typical Hollywood version of mental illness, i.e. “My second personality is a prostitute with a Cockney accent!” Pat’s bipolar disorder and Tiffany’s unnamed condition manifest themselves in ways that are realistically, even heartbreakingly mundane; Tiffany texts relative strangers…
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Emotion regulation strategies distinguish borderline, bipolar II
Outpatients with borderline personality disorder scored “significantly higher than those with [bipolar II] on a number of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies, including difficulty controlling impulsive behaviors. Emotion regulation strategies distinguish borderline, bipolar II By: KAREN BLUM, Clinical Psychiatry News Digital Network Borderline personality disorder and bipolar II disorder share some common features, but the illnesses can be distinguished by patients’ differences in emotion regulation strategies and perceptions of how their parents raised them, according to a report published online in the Journal of Affective Disorders. Forty-eight psychiatric outpatients, half with borderline personality disorder and half with bipolar II, were recruited by Kathryn Fletcher of the University of New South Wales,…
