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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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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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Is Your Diagnosed Depression Really Borderline Personality Disorder?
As a rule of thumb, always start by validating the other person’s feelings – you don’t have to agree with the behavior to do that, you can just empathize with the feelings, because there are no right or wrong feelings. Then, when they feel that you’re on their side, you can point out your version of the truth. Is Your Diagnosed Depression Really Borderline Personality Disorder? Borderline Personality Disorder is a psychiatric disorder that didn’t come into clear focus until the last thirty five years or so, and was initially called “borderline” because psychiatrists thought that people who suffered from it were in between neurosis and psychosis. It was considered…
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Always in a Bad Relationship? Science Says Your DNA Might Be to Blame
Scientists also found that those with the G-gene are “more likely to develop neurotic personalities and psychiatric disorders such as major depression and borderline personality disorder.” Always in a Bad Relationship? Science Says Your DNA Might Be to Blame By Jillian Kramer If you’re chronically single or on what seems to be a hamster wheel of bad relationships, don’t blame the dudes—it may be time to blame Mom and Dad. Or, more specifically, your DNA. New research from Peking University in Beijing found that men and women born with the specific gene type “G” are 20 percent more likely to be single than those without that little strand of DNA.…
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8 Genetically Distinct Disorders Linked to Schizophrenia
Recent findings conducted by a team of researchers at Washington University of School of Medicine now suggest that schizophrenia can be linked to eight genetically distinct disorders that have their own unique symptoms. “Genes don’t operate by themselves. They function in concert much like an orchestra, and to understand how they’re working, you have to know not just who the members of the orchestra are but how they interact,” said C. Robert Cloninger, MD, PhD, one of the study’s senior investigators, in a news release. “What we’ve done here, after a decade of frustration in the field of psychiatric genetics, is identify the way genes interact with each other, how…
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Psychiatrist says borderline personality disorder sufferers need targeted treatment
Recommendations made in two damning reports into Australia’s ability to treat patients with borderline personality disorder (BDP) have been ignored for two years by state and federal governments. The reports detailed an illness that poses serious challenges to frontline medical staff. Senior psychiatrist Dr Martha Kent was a lead author on both reports for the federal and South Australian governments on how to deal with BDP patients, and says the label can be misleading. Rather than referring to a problem with a patient’s personality, the name traditionally refers to the mix of symptoms located on the border between psychosis and neurosis. The condition can manifest itself in a variety of…