Knowing how to support your friend with Borderline Personality Disorder will go a long way in helping your friend better cope with their disorder. Here are six ways to better support a friend with BPD.

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.

Clearview will hold its first Orange County DBT workshop on October 14, 2011, in Newport Beach.

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.

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.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is an effective tool for improving the symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder. It can help people with BPD to feel more connected to themselves, other people, and the world around them, as well as reduce their levels of stress.

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.