Treating BPD: Do It Yourself?

Treating BPD: Do It Yourself?

There is an inverse relationship between the number of people who are living with mental illness and the availability of resources with which to treat them. In other words, as more people need support for mental illness, there is insufficient help available to them-...
Why Do They Do That? Could Be BPD.

Why Do They Do That? Could Be BPD.

 Is there a person in your life who‘s behavior is baffling? Are that person’s emotions volatile and unpredictable? Do they do things impulsively, flit from one bad relationship to another or have problems with alcohol or drugs? Do they get depressed or anxious? Do...
Study: DBT Interventions Effective at Reducing Suicide Attempts

Study: DBT Interventions Effective at Reducing Suicide Attempts

Three variations of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)  helped reduce suicide attempts and non-suicidal self-injury acts in a randomized clinical trial of women with borderline personality disorder who were highly suicidal, according to an article published online by...
Think You Know About BPD?

Think You Know About BPD?

Much more attention has been paid to Borderline Personality Disorder over the past 20 years than ever before. The watershed moment came in 1993 with the publication of Marsha Linehan’s books and research papers detailing her innovative treatment for BPD, Dialectical...
Journey With Mental Illness Leads To New Treatment

Journey With Mental Illness Leads To New Treatment

 Marsha Linehan, director of the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics at the University of Washington was selected for the 2017 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. Dr. Linehan won the award for her development of Dialectical Behavior Therapy...