Alina Gorgorian, Ph.D., clinical director of Clearview Women’s Center for Borderline Personality and Emotional Disorders in Los Angeles, offers two ways to help your daughter get needed BPD treatment.
The study, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, looks at how teens think and whether their thoughts might indicate Borderline Personality Disorder.
Though it’s not a specific symptom of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), it’s not uncommon for people with BPD to lie compulsively. If you are related to someone with BPD, you might be concerned by the tendency of your loved one to lie and wonder how to cope.
Every year, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) gathers thousands of walkers around the country to raise awareness about the need for treatment for people with mental illness.
As part of BPD treatment through Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), people with the psychiatric disorder are taught skills to help them learn both to feel validated and to validate others. Validation is an important skill learned in DBT, and is one you can help someone with BPD practice.
According to the biosocial theory of BPD, this complex disorder is the result of certain biological predispositions which manifest themselves when met with a dysfunctional or invalidating environment.
As I prepare to lead my first Family Connections class, I will share some personal anecdotes about being the daughter of someone with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). I hope that these anecdotes validate some of your experiences as a loved one of someone with BPD.
If you took the step of breaking up with someone who has Borderline Personality Disorder, it may have been a difficult decision. However, time and a few attitudinal changes should help you cope with the break up. Here are four beliefs that will help you get unstuck and move on from your relationship.
In their book The Tender Cut: Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury, ethnographers Patricia and Peter Adler aimed to go beyond people who had been in treatment or hospitalized for their self-harmful behaviors and explore the “hidden population” of people who self-injure in their natural settings.
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) recently released a comprehensive informational brochure on Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Here’s what you can expect to find.