The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) recently released a comprehensive informational brochure on Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). The brochure is the first to be released by NIMH on BPD, and is added to its extensive collection of brochures on other mental health disorders.
NIMH’s Borderline Personality Disorder brochure includes the following information about BPD:
- What Borderline Personality Disorder is
- The symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder
- When Borderline Personality Disorder starts
- The illnesses that often co-occur with Borderline Personality Disorder
- The risk factors for Borderline Personality Disorder
- How Borderline Personality Disorder is diagnosed
- How Borderline Personality Disorder is treated
- How you can help a friend or relative who has Borderline Personality Disorder
- How you can help yourself if you have Borderline Personality Disorder
- Where you can go for help
- How to help someone in crisis
Other NIMH Brochures
The National Institute of Mental Health, which performs basic and clinical research on mental health disorders to encourage prevention, recovery, and a cure, also has brochures on the following disorders:
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Anxiety disorders
- Autism
- Bipolar Disorder
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Panic Disorder
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Schizophrenia
- Social Phobia
You can find the new Borderline Personality Disorder brochure, as well as a variety of other brochures and information on mental health disorders, on the NIMH website.