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.
People suffering from Bipolar Disorder are increasingly looking at more natural methods of treatment. Here are five natural remedies that can help you to manage the symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
Assertive Community Treatment is an all-encompassing type of treatment that occurs 24 hours a day, seven days a week to build a community around your BPD treatment that provides you a framework of support you wouldn’t otherwise have.
“DBT Skills: An Experiential Workshop,” which will be held on Friday, July 29, 2011, will provide participants practical knowledge of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), a method of treatment specifically developed to treat BPD, and its clinical application.
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, 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.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which commonly co-occurs with Borderline Personality Disorder, is usually the result of a traumatic experience.
If you have been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, you will need some form of BPD treatment to better manage your symptoms, learn healthy coping skills, and make a complete recovery. Studies have shown that effective BPD treatment that incorporates a variety of therapies can help you make a long-term recovery from your BPD symptoms.
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.
The core of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is to identify thoughts and feelings that lead to high-risk and destructive behaviors. This can help people with Borderline Personality Disorder to better manage their BPD symptoms and make a recovery from their psychiatric disorder.