Brandon Marshall created Project Borderline to help educate people about Borderline Personality Disorder, raise awareness of BPD, and help people gain access to the resources that they need to recover. He also hopes to bridge the gap between patients, clinicians, and family members.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy seeks to teach people with aggressive tendencies to employ mindfulness techniques in order to prevent aggressive behavior. Through DBT, they learn to tolerate uncomfortable emotions by sitting with them before acting on them.

Borderline Personality Disorder is a condition that has a profound ripple effect, as the conflict in the primary spousal and familial relationships often spreads to all of those friends and relatives surrounding and witnessing the dysfunctional relationship. So how do you cope with the anger that can result?

A look at the two types of narcissists Frank Yeomans, MD, PhD, spoke about during NEA-BPD’s call-in series and the obstacles that might be in the way of effective Narcissistic Personality Disorder treatment. Part 2 of 2.

The National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEA-BPD) continued its weekly call-in series with a talk by Frank Yeomans, MD, PhD, who spoke about Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), the specific characteristics associated with it, and the challenges to effectively treating NPD therapeutically. Part 1 of 2.

People with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) frequently engage in self-harmful behaviors, such as cutting and burning. A recent study by researchers at the University of Washington and Alliant International University aimed to find out what triggers these self-harmful behaviors, as well as suicide attempts.

Cutting is one form of self-harmful behavior that someone with Borderline Personality Disorder may engage in. Because it can be easy to hide, people with BPD are more likely to engage in cutting than in other self-harmful behaviors. And, unless you know what to look for, you may never realize that your loved one is intentionally harming themselves.

If you’re in a relationship with someone who has an eating disorder, such as anorexia, bulimia, or Binge Eating Disorder, here are five ways you can support both you and your loved one.

At more than 24 percent, Rhode Island had the highest occurrence of adults experiencing a mental illness in the past year, according to a new report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).