by Kevin Dawkins | Sep 30, 2015
The results of a research study conducted in Israel indicate that mental health providers’ attitudes towards people with Borderline Personality Disorder may be shaped by their own fears, particularly about death and suicide. It seems that preoccupation about death,...
by Kevin Dawkins | Aug 10, 2015
Trailer– CAUSES OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER That’s a question frequently asked by people who meet the diagnostic criteria and by people who have a loved one with this confusing mental health condition. No one is born with borderline personality disorder....
by Kevin Dawkins | Jul 20, 2015
If Only We Had Known: A Family Guide to BPD Why would anyone ever do that?That’s the typical reaction many people – especially parents of teenagers – have when they discover that their child engages in self-harming behavior such as cutting, burning or other violent...
by Kevin Dawkins | Jul 9, 2015
If that is the question, here are some answers: Who The first recorded blog was created in 1994 by Swarthmore College student Justin Hall. By 2011, there were over 156 million public blogs in existence. By 2014, some 172 million blogs were hosted on Tumblr and another...
by Kevin Dawkins | Jul 6, 2015
Today, July 6th, is the opening day of the 2015 National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) National Convention in San Francisco, California. At 11 AM (PST) Dr. Marsha Linehan will be giving a keynote presentation on Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and the...
by Kevin Dawkins | Jul 1, 2015
Well its not on purpose, that’s for sure. People with BPD experience and also display emotions more intensely than most other people do. Why is that? This has to do with two areas of the brain that are involved in emotion processing. The limbic system, located deep in...
