Borderline Articles

Could I Develop Borderline Personality Disorder From Being Around My Ex?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
I believe I have spent the last 3 years in a relationship with a man who has borderline personality disorder. Can i actually begin to get the same disorder. I'm finding myself behaving in ways and feeling things I've never felt before in my life. ...

Anxiety, depression…. what else?

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
I am 19 years old and I have had depression on and off for the last 9 years, since my grandfather died. Anxiety runs in my family and around the time I turned 18, I started feeling the symptoms of that as well. I constantly ...

Sixteen and wondering if I am in a domestic mental/emotional abusive relationship

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Thursday, May 26th, 2011
I'm sixteen. Everyone tells me this affects everything: my dad died when I was twelve. He and I had an amazing relationship, he was a great dad. Also I'm the youngest girl in my family. But right now I’m really confused about what’s going on ...

How to deal with borderline personality disorder

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Monday, May 9th, 2011
I don’t even know where to begin, honestly. I came here because I’ve been researching tons of things trying to come up with an idea of what to do with myself. I have borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder according to a psychiatrist I saw ...

I’m concerned that I have BPD

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Saturday, May 7th, 2011
Hi, I've recently become more aware of how harmful my intense and random anger is. It's a serious problem that I want to get control of. It's threatened my relationship with my girlfriend who is the best thing that has ever happened to me, and ...

Why Did The Hospital Kick Me Out So Quickly?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, May 6th, 2011
I have been in a psych hospital for the past 4 1/2 months, I had a CPA yesterday to decide when I should be discharged. I overdosed on sunday, I wanted to show them how serious I was. But instead they discharged with only 18 ...

Depression or Something More?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
I have concerns as to whether I am just a depressive person or whether I have BPD- I appreciate a diagnosis cannot be made via the site but advice on which direction to continue would be appreciated. I am 34 married with one child. I have ...

Curious About Amnesia Part of DID

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, March 25th, 2011
I am curious about the amnesia part of DID. I seem to have different people who live inside me. Unlike what I know about DID, though, we all know about each other. We don't always but occasionally we do talk to each other. ...

Going Back to Therapist after Being Kicked Out?

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Thursday, March 24th, 2011
I was attending dialectical behavior therapy for 9 months before I got kicked out after a suicide attempt. They never told me this directly, rather I got the message through the doctor at the hospital that they had dropped me from treatment and I couldn't ...

Borderline Personality Disorder and Coping Methods

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
I am a college focused girl and to others, it may seem that the only troubles in my life are balancing Advances Placement classes. In the past year, however, I have been encountering many signs of Borderline Personality Disorder in my behavior which seem to ...

Mom May Be Borderline But Refuses Help

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Thursday, March 10th, 2011
I’m looking for a little advice for my mother who may have Borderline Personality Disorder. Long story short, I feel like this is the last straw and I’m starting to lose patience. Issue: We’ve been bearing with her, but it there doesn’t seem to be a ...

Do I Have Borderline Personality Disorder?

By Julie Hanks, LCSW on Thursday, February 24th, 2011
About a year ago I went to my doctor and told her how I was feeling, she told me I had symptoms of BPD and to maybe see a therapist. I never ended up going but I did look it up and a lot/almost all ...