by BPD News | Sep 30, 2015
Its very name means those diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) can face criticism and families can also be stigmatised. The word ‘borderline’ tends to make many think there is not really anything wrong with someone diagnosed with BPD and an...
by BPD News | Sep 28, 2015
Athens, Ga. – Those with borderline personality disorder, or BPD, a mental illness marked by unstable moods, often experience trouble maintaining interpersonal relationships. New research from the University of Georgia indicates that this may have to do with...
by BPD News | Sep 27, 2015
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is frequently encountered in a variety of clinical settings.1 On inpatient units, it is estimated that 20% of patients have comorbidity with BPD. In outpatient clinics, 11% of patients meet diagnostic criteria for BPD. Despite...
by BPD News | Sep 22, 2015
For Pam Tusiani, a simple “no” from her mother or friends would result in severe feelings of rejection and abandonment. In other settings, a trivial remark would set off a raging tantrum. To illuminate the regions of the brain involved in regulating these emotions,...
by BPD News | Sep 19, 2015
ONLINE help could reduce the number of rural young people taking their own lives by giving them more support and greater access to mental health services, a science media briefing has heard. Dr Jane Burns from the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre said...
by BPD News | Sep 16, 2015
SAN DIEGO — In a presentation at U.S. Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress, Victor Hong, MD, and Kenneth Silk, MD, of the University of Michigan, discussed how psychiatrists could potentially avoid polypharmacy when treating patients with borderline personality...
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 BPD News | Jul 11, 2015
The leading cause of disability in the workplace isn’t from a physical injury but from the disease of mental illness. NAMI Massachusetts (NAMI Mass) did a survey last summer of 800 voters. They found that only 22 percent of those surveyed agreed that someone with...
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...
