Borderline Articles

My Sister is Child-Like

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
I am 25 years old and married and I currently have my 27 year old sister living with me. She is the nicest person you will ever meet but we have a few major problems. I sometimes think that her mind is stuck back in ...
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How To Help My Boyfriend with Mental Health Issues?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
My boyfriend is diagnosed as bipolar, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder and anxiety disorders. He has recently in the past year quit taking medications for it. He has tried a number of medications and none of them have worked. We have been doing research recently about ...
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I Feel Totally Alone

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA on Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
I have many friends and a huge family but I have none. I have just graduated from the most highly regarded film school in the southern hemisphere with flying colors and have, throughout the whole year, been told I'm destined for great things but I ...
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Do I have borderline personality disorder?

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA on Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
I am 13 and I've noticed lately how depressed, irritable and hopeless I've felt, with many mood-swings and overreactions for certain situations. I often have suicidal thoughts, and though I know I'd never go through with it, they still haunt me. I used ...
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Not Relationship Material?

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA on Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
I know that I am covering a lot in this post, and I am probably mixing up several issues because I have several things going on in my life right now. I am in my late 40s. I have been married three times; the first two ...
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I am afraid of therapy

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Saturday, December 4th, 2010
I was a mental health specialist for the army. I remember the first time i heard of borderline personality disorder- i prayed that the resemblance between us wasn't true. Now, in my second marriage and after having a child... i'm wondering why the "high" ...
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Suicidal friend in an abusive relationship

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Two summers ago I was a counselor at a self growth/leadership camp. One of my campers started calling me at the beginning of the school year last year with boyfriend issues. It didn't seam like that big of an issue at first, but it got ...
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Love/hate relationship

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA on Thursday, October 28th, 2010
I was recently called a "misfit misanthrope" by some random user here on the internet & I wasn't too sure what misanthrope meant. Sooo, I looked it up. When I did, I realized how I kind of fit in with what it was. I do ...
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Love / Hate Relationship

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA on Thursday, October 14th, 2010
some random user here recently called me a “misfit misanthrope” on the Internet & I wasn't too sure what misanthrope meant. Sooo, I looked it up. When I did, I realized how I kind of fit in with what it was. I do absolutely love everyone ...
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I May Be Borderline, But My Symptoms Don’t Quite Match

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Thursday, September 9th, 2010
I was an exchange student in Italy for a year. When I was there people went after things that sort of make me who I am. I get angry really easily, not explosively so, but it happens so often and it's so obvious that ...
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Is DID Ruining My Life?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, September 5th, 2010
Hi, I have suffered MH problems from aroound the age of 6 (now 24) at 14 I was put on anti-d's and at 19 I was diagnosed with OCD and BPD. The thing im struggling with the most is my severe dissociation, for many ...
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Traumatized and Bullied by a Patient

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
This problem started when I was volunteering for a mental health charity at a drop in centre. Day after day I would volunteer there with one particular member repeatedly trying to undermine my professionlism by asking for my help and then claiming harassment (non ...
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