by BPD News | Oct 30, 2015
Earlier this year Crystal Gonzalez, 25, started hearing voices. “I forgot that this is reality,” says Gonzalez, who lives with her mum and sister in the South Bronx, in New York City. Gonzalez has been diagnosed as bipolar, and as having a borderline personality...
by BPD News | Oct 28, 2015
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a very challenging and complex disorder to treat. Dr. Blaise Aguirre, a recognized child and adolescent researcher of BPD, states that about 11% of clients with the disorder end up in outpatient settings, while about 20% are in...
by Kevin Dawkins | Oct 27, 2015
Several years ago I attended an annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in New York. I was meeting with Marsha Linehan to have lunch and to invite her to participate in a project of ours that had just been funded by the National Institute of Mental...
by BPD News | Oct 24, 2015
A study from Rhode Island Hospital has shown that a widely-used screening tool for bipolar disorder may incorrectly indicate borderline personality disorder rather than bipolar disorder. In the article that appears online ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical...
by BPD News | Oct 22, 2015
How often have you said to someone, “Oh you know me, I’m crazy,” when you do something unexpected? How often have you heard someone else be quirky and call it being mad? Being mad is glamorous, being mad is fun, being mad gets you awe, admiration and the label of...
by BPD News | Oct 20, 2015
Your genes may influence how sensitive you are to emotional information, according to new research by a UBC neuroscientist. The study, recently published in The Journal of Neuroscience, found that carriers of a certain genetic variation perceived positive and negative...
by BPD News | Oct 18, 2015
Recommendations made in two damning reports into Australia’s ability to treat patients with borderline personality disorder (BDP) have been ignored for two years by state and federal governments. The reports detailed an illness that poses serious challenges to...
by BPD News | Oct 16, 2015
A major multi-national study of suicides has identified the behaviour patterns which precede many suicide attempts. This may lead to changes in clinical practice in the care of patients affected with depression, as it shows the clinical factors which confer major risk...
by BPD News | Oct 14, 2015
Women react differently to negative images compared to men, which may be explained by subtle differences in brain function. This neurobiological explanation for women’s apparent greater sensitivity has been demonstrated by researchers at the CIUSSS de...
by Kevin Dawkins | Oct 13, 2015
This October is Mental Health Awareness Month, a global initiative to raise consciousness about mental illness and reduce the associated stigma. October 10 was World Mental Health Day, sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO). The theme of this year’s event...
