How to Avoid Feeling Helpless When Your Child Is Diagnosed With BPD
December 30, 2011 at 3:43 pm in Family & Friends
If your child has been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), you may feel like hope is lost. But a BPD diagnosis is truly the beginning of real progress.
Supporting a Family Member Who Has Borderline Personality Disorder
December 6, 2011 at 4:31 pm in Family & Friends
Supporting a loved one who has been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder will mean helping them learn more effective communication styles and amend negative patterns of behavior.
New Book Provides Support for Dual Diagnosis of BPD, Addiction
November 9, 2011 at 2:33 pm in BPD Symptoms, Treatment & Therapy
Drawing on her own experience as someone diagnosed with BPD and alcohol addiction, Amy Allison published a meditation book that focuses on the needs, concerns, and questions faced by someone looking for dual diagnosis treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder and an addiction.
New Personality Disorder Framework Proposed for Upcoming DSM Revision
July 15, 2011 at 11:01 am in BPD Symptoms, Treatment & Therapy
The diagnosis of personality disorders is set to undergo a major change in the proposed revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The DSM-V would drop the number of diagnosable personality disorders from 10 to six and create a hybrid model for making a diagnosis.
4 Ways to Control Your Anger
July 6, 2011 at 3:29 pm in BPD Symptoms, Related Conditions
If you or someone you know has Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), you may be familiar with sudden and unexpected outbursts of anger. People with BPD experience all kinds of mood swings, but anger is especially prevalent. We’ll explore what anger is and how to get it under control.
NEA-BPD Offers Educational Videos Online
June 28, 2011 at 12:38 pm in BPD Symptoms, Family & Friends, Related Conditions, Treatment & Therapy
The National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEA-BPD) holds workshops throughout the year on topics related to Borderline Personality Disorder. Since it’s impossible for you to attend every event held by NEA-BPD, the association makes a point of offering videos from leading BPD research professionals online and free of charge.
Marsha Linehan Offers Hope by Revealing Her Own Struggle with BPD
June 24, 2011 at 2:18 pm in BPD Symptoms, Treatment & Therapy
Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., creator of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) – a method of therapy widely used to treat Borderline Personality Disorder and other psychiatric disorders – for the first time publicly shared her years of battling BPD in an article in The New York Times.
The Integrated Treatment Approach for Dual Diagnosis
June 15, 2011 at 3:28 pm in Related Conditions, Treatment & Therapy
With integrated dual diagnosis treatment, the psychiatric disorder and the drug or alcohol addiction are treated at the same time in a series of phases that are meant to help the patient find new ways of coping with their psychiatric disorder that don’t involve abusing substances.
Borderline Personality Disorder and Drug Abuse
June 10, 2011 at 11:31 am in Related Conditions
It’s not uncommon for people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) to develop a drug addiction. People with BPD often develop an addiction to drugs or alcohol as a way to help them feel in control of their BPD symptoms, such as impulsivity and poor emotional regulation
Breaking Up with Someone Who Has Borderline Personality Disorder
June 3, 2011 at 11:53 am in BPD Symptoms, Family & Friends
You’ve heard it before: breaking up is hard to do. And if you are in a relationship with someone diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), you may find breaking up with them to be even more of a challenge.


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