by BPD News | Jul 2, 2016
Based on overlapping symptoms, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) are often mistaken for one another. The two personality disorders even have a rate of co-occurrence of about 25 percent, according to the National Alliance...
by BPD News | Jun 22, 2016
Mount Sinai researchers have identified that networks in the brain that help regulate emotion do not activate in patients with borderline personality disorder. Mount Sinai researchers have found that real-time brain imaging suggests that people with Borderline...
by Kevin Dawkins | May 30, 2016
People with Borderline Personality Disorder often have significant interpersonal problems. These relationship difficulties may be due to their intense fear of being abandoned. If Only We Had Known: A Family Guide to BPD ←PREVIOUS NEXT→ Signup for...
by Kevin Dawkins | May 25, 2016
Some people exhibit BPD behaviors early in their lives. Evidence of emerging borderline personality disorder symptoms may be found in teens and even younger children. If Only We Had Known: A Family Guide to BPD ←PREVIOUS NEXT→ Signup for BPD Updates...
by Kevin Dawkins | May 17, 2016
BPD is one of the most widely prevalent mental disorders. More people are diagnosed with BPD than Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia combined. Estimates of the lifetime prevalence of BPD in the US range as high as 16 million people. ←PREVIOUS NEXT→...
by BPD News | Dec 4, 2015
“How about I hold up a sign that says, ‘I AM MORE THAN MY BPD?’” “How about you don’t?” This is a brief exchange I had with myself at the 2015 photo campaign for Active Minds at Columbia University, entitled “My Mental Health Matters.” The table was littered with an...
