Borderline Personality Articles

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• Compassion for Annie: A Healthy Response to Mental Disorders
  Compassion for Annie: A Healthy Response to Mental Disorders is a user-friendly book aimed at individuals suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD) and those who love them. Dowell writes from the layperson’s perspective and covers ...
• Tragic Beauty: The Dark Side of Venus Aphrodite and the Loss and Regeneration of Soul
  Everyone has met Aphrodite -- the girl who enters a room and men turn their heads to gawk, the girl who always has a man clutching her arm while several others wait in the wings. ...
• Loud In The House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
  I found "Loud In The House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl" by Stacy Pershall to be a superbly written, first-person account of a young girl's struggle with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and bipolar ...
• The Emotional Vulnerability of Borderline Personality Disorder
  Imagine you have a cut. The skin around your cut heals. But it heals all wrong. The scarred tissue ...
• How to Help a Loved One with Borderline Personality Disorder, Part 2
  When your loved one has borderline personality disorder (BPD), you might feel like you’re already ...
• How to Help a Loved One with Borderline Personality Disorder, Part 1
  Borderline personality disorder (BPD) can seem like an enigma, even to family and friends, who ...
• Navigating College with Borderline Personality Disorder
  I was recently diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) after spending two weeks in a mental hospital following two failed ...
• I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
  While the public is familiar with more mainstream psychological diagnoses such as depression or schizophrenia, the only knowledge most individuals have of borderline personality disorder (BPD) results from having watched Winona Ryder in the Oscar-nominated ...
• Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder
  Valerie Porr, M.A. understands intimately the ramifications of a family member suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD).  It was this experience and curiosity that led her to attend a lecture by Marsha Linehan, PhD, creator ...
• Being Good vs. Being Codependent
  Is the way that you are ‘being good’ to your loved ones actually caring and good? Or are you involved in codependent ...
• The Buddha & The Borderline
  The Buddha & The Borderline, by writer, artist and advocate Kiera Van Gelder, exposes a regularly hushed-up topic: borderline personality disorder (BPD). BPD is shrouded in stigma. There’s little information about the disorder and, while ...
• Living with Borderline Personality Disorder
  Receiving a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) may seem devastating. There’s a lot of confusion about what BPD really means and ...
• Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder
  From a patient’s point of view, the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can be an exceptionally traumatic and judgmental one.  So it is a great pleasure to be able to find a ...
• Girl in Need of a Tourniquet: Memoir of a Borderline Personality
  Not to use a cliché, but you can judge Merri Lisa Johnson’s Girl in Need of a Tourniquet: Memoir of a Borderline Personality by the cover quite accurately. The image of a heart that has ...
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy in the Treatment of Adult ADHD
  Many symptoms of ADHD persist into adulthood. Although hyperactivity tends to decrease with adulthood, emotional instability, disorganized behavior and disinhibition are ...
• The Essential Family Guide To Borderline Personality Disorder
  Editor's note: All statistics cited in the review are taken from the book itself. Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mystery to many of us, even clinicians. Still, BPD is more common than schizophrenia and twice ...
• Teens Who Self-Harm
  Sandy's mother, Lily, is beside herself. "I didn't notice anything was wrong all winter," she said. "Oh, she was quieter than usual and her grades weren't the best. But we moved last fall and I ...
• Suicide Junkie
  Approximately one million people commit suicide every year, according to the World Health Organization. Despite his best efforts, Steve Westwood is not one of them. “Suicide Junkie," Westwood's autobiography, details his long-term struggles with body ...
• Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT)
  Mentalization based therapy (MBT) is a specific type of psychodynamically-oriented psychotherapy designed to help people with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Its focus is helping people to differentiate and separate out their own thoughts and feelings ...
• An Overview of Borderline Personality Disorder
  Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental illness characterized by pervasive instability in moods, interpersonal relationships, self-image, and behavior. This instability often disrupts family and work life, long-term planning, and the individual's sense ...
• Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment
  Table of Contents Introduction Psychotherapy Hospitalization Medications Self-Help Introduction Borderline Personality Disorder is experienced in individuals in many different ways. Often, ...
• Characteristics of Borderline Personality Disorder
  Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder make frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. The perception of impending separation or rejection, or the loss of external structure, can lead to profound ...
• Borderline Personality Disorder
  The main feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image and emotions. People with borderline personality disorder are also usually very impulsive. This disorder occurs in most ...
• An Introduction to Borderline Personality Disorder
  The term "borderline" means in-between one thing and another. Originally, this term was used when the clinician was unsure of the correct diagnosis because the client manifested a mixture of neurotic and psychotic symptoms. Many ...