What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
A series of essays by members of the online writers' community Helium.com. Also check out other Helium essay series on Borderline Personality Disorder: Self Mutilation is the Language of Pain • Living with BPD • How to Deal with People Who Have Borderline • BPD and Radical Acceptance • BPD & the Core Wound of Abandonment and others.
Child Abuse: A cause of Borderline Personality Disorder
A history of abuse is common in people with borderline personality disorder. Is it a contributing factor?
Borderline Personality Disorder and Sexual Abuse
Many who are diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder were sexually abused as children.
Anxiety Sensitivity & BPD: A Newfound Sympathy?
A recent study showed that anxiety sensitivity might have something to do with the unstable behavior of someone with BPD. While their behavior may appear destructive to outside observers, splitting and a tenuous sense of self along with all the byproduct behaviors produced by these two markers may simply be the way that someone with borderline personality disorder keeps anxiety at bay. Learn more in this article from Insight Journal.
The Causes of Borderline Personality Disorder
What causes Borderline Personality Disorder? What are the risk factors? The specific cause is unknown, but looking at the theories helps gain an understanding of the disorder. An article from About.com's guide to Borderline Personality, reviewed by Steven Gans, MD.
The False Self of BPD & its Pathological Narcicssism
Author and expert consumer AJ Mahari explores the core wound of abandonment and pathological narcissism in the Borderline's "false self".
Coping Strategies to Prevent Self-Injury
One of the hallmark traits of borderline personality disorder is the consistent use of self-injury as a response to stress and associated painful emotions. A person with BPD may choose any number of self-injury methods, but each has the same effect: self-injury causes bodily pain, which simultaneously distracts from the overwhelming emotional pain and causes a sudden release of endorphins in the brain. Learn more from this Associated Content essay by Anita Grace Simpson.
Self Mutilation is a Borderline Language of Pain
Self-mutilation, for many who have Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), is a learned language of expressing profound pain.
The Relationship Between BPD & Parental Bonding.
Does a lack of child-parent bonding during early development play a role in the onset of BPD?
BPD: Self-Harm (Self Mutilation) You Can Heal It!
Self-Mutilation in people with Boderline Personality Disorder often represents an abandonment of the self, a way of living in and through a false self.
An Invalidating Environment May Contribute to BPD
Many adults diagnosed with BPD report having spent at least some of their formative years in an environment that lacked the kind of validation, consistency and nurturing that are fundamental to development of a healthy self-image.
The Borderline Personality Disordered Family
Those who were abused as children are at great risk of developing BPD and are likely to have been abused by parents who were themselves Borderline. Featured in MentalHelp.Net's Personality Disorders section, this article comes from the site's weblog of Licensed Clinical Social Worker and PhD Allan Schwartz. (Also check out Part II: The Children & Part III: Healing.)
Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder
Internet Mental Health uses the alternative designation of EUPD, one of a number of terms for BPD being tossed around by consumers, researchers, academics and clued-in mental health professionals. This page offers a thorough symptomology and features a sizeable index of links to articles and fact sheets about this often contraversial disorder.
Borderline Personality Disorder: New Tones of Emotion Regulation
A consumer relates her experiences with BPD and its profound impact on the ability to regulate and handle feelings.
Psychiatry Discriminates Against People with Borderline Personality Disorder
There may be no other psychiatric diagnosis more laden with stereotypes and stigma than Borderline Personality Disorder. People who live with this label–the majority being female–often have problems accessing good mental health services. Unlike the stigmatization that society puts on mental illness, the stigma associated with BPD often comes from mental health professionals and their patronizing attitudes. An article by Elise Stobbe for the Global Neuroscience Initiative Foundation's BrainBlogger.com site.
Borderline Personality Disorder Care Inadequate, According To Psychiatric Nurses
98% of nurses in a recent survey (2007) report service shortages played a role in inadequate care of those diagnosed with BPD. 83% said that disagreements between staff on how to care for people with BPD was another factor in poor quality of care. An article from ScienceDaily.com.
Borderline Label Creates Stigma
Changing the name of the diagnosis may seem a symbolic act, but it may well be a step in the right direction in moving away from the stigma attached to BPD.
Bringing Borderline Personality Disorder Into the Light
Why is BPD the recipient of such professional disregard? In this article Valerie Porr, MA, examines the isolating of an illness and offers ideas and options that may help roll back the institutionalized abandonment of a treatable disorder. Porr is the president of Treatment and Research Advancements ~ National Association for Personality Disorder (TARA~NPD).
Stigma and Borderline Personality Disorder
The trouble with the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder is that when the consumer attempts to be pro-active in their own treatment, their requests and actions are often viewed merely as BPD-symptomatic behavior or acting out. Patty Fleener, MSW, examines how stigma attached to the Borderline diagnosis can interfere with a consumer's ability to successfully advocate for themselves in seeking adequate treatment. An article from BorderlinePersonalityToday.
Myths About BPD
In spite of the facts, borderline disorder is still considered to be a "wastebasket" diagnosis by some mental health professionals, possibly because there are other mental disorders that frequently co-occur with borderline disorder. Robert O Freidel, MD, examines erroneous ideas about BPD that may contribute to the disorder's "notorious" reputation among mental health care workers and medical professionals.
Poisonality
Once thought to be "on the border" of psychosis, learn about how the mental health profession's ideas about Borderline have changed (and not changed) since the diagnosis was first studied.
Yahoo! Health: Borderline Personality Disorder & Medications
Medications may be used to try to reduce symptoms of borderline personality disorder, such as impulsive behavior or depression.
Depression Central: Borderline Personality Disorder Page
A collection of articles and recommended titles on BPD, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and all things Borderline. Compiled by Ivan Goldberg, MD.
BPD Treament Options
Essays explaining treatments most commonly used to overcome BPD. The page was created by staff members of the Borderline Personality Disorder Resource Center at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, who have backgrounds in psychiatry, clinical social work and health education. These treatments covered include: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS), Supportive Psychotherapy, and medication.
BPD Shows Improvements With Intensive Psychotherapy
An intensive form of talk therapy, known as transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP), can help individuals affected with BPD by reducing symptoms and improving their social functioning, according to the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Targeted Therapy Halves Suicide Attempts in BPD
A study funded by the National Insitute of Mental Health has found that Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) reduced suicide attempts by 50% in patients with borderline personality disorder. DBT also reduced consumers' use of emergency room and inpatient services and cut the therapy dropout rates in half.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
The National Alliance Mental Illness (NAMI) presents this fact sheet on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy reviewed by Debbie M Warman, PhD, and Aaron T Beck, MD.
MentalHelp.net: Marsha Linehan, PhD on Dialectical Behavior Therapy
David Van Nuys, PhD, talks with Dr Marsha Linehan, the founder of Dialectical Behavior Therapy a form of psychotherapy useful for treating people who have BPD. (Also available as a Podcast)
Recovering From Borderline Personality Disorder
Melissa Ford Thornton, author of Eclipses: Behind The Borderline Personality Disorder, talks about living with and recovering from Borderline Personality Disorder. An interview featured on the Personality Disorders Community of HealthyPlace.com. Healthy Place is the largest consumer mental health site on the Web, providing comprehensive information on psychological disorders and psychiatric medications from both a consumer and expert point of view.
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AAPEL: Trouble Borderline This French site aims to help and inform people suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder. Ce site francophone a pour vocation d'aider les personnes qui souffrent d'un trouble de la personnalite borderline ou etat limite et leurs proches.(Also available in English.)
About.com's Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder
This information site was created for those coping with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). It features educational writing, information on the disorder, links to resources and peer support.
BPD Recovery
An online message forum community that focuses on the use of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and other Cognitaive Behavioral Therapy to treat this personality disorder. The site offers information pages, social networking and more- all focused on the issues related to overcoming BPD. Membership is free.
Borderline Personality Disorder Today
A website that provides advocacy, a newsletter, online communities, a BPD chat room, an archive of articles by professional therapists, interviews with authors of books on BPD, A consumer literary section, A family section, crisis intervention, well-written articles, an online bookstore, and links to additional resources.
Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation
The Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation aims to increase the public and professional understanding of the causes of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in the hopes that more effective prevention and treatment can be developed. The BPDRF has organized an international group of scientists and is currently coordinating research at six universities to develop research frameworks while studying BPD. The organization's Web site has resources available for anyone who wishes to learn more about BPD.
DBT Self Help
This website is free a service for people who are seeking information about Dialectal Behavior Therapy. Created by consumers, DBT Self Help is a non-commercial, non-professional site offering the experience of peers who have been involved in DBT. There's a list of DBT skills along with practical exercises, assignments and other helpful features, news, information and links.
Healthy Place: Personality Disorders Community
This online support community presents individual online diary sites, chatting forums for social networking and support between consumers with BPD and other personality disorders, the latest news, discussion forums, an online store and information about treatment options, symptomology, medications and more. Membership is free.
Borderline Personality Disorder Sanctuary
An therapuetic online social networking site, BPD Sanctuary offers an Ask the Dr Q & A forum, an online newsletter, articles on BPD, bulletin boards, support for families of those with BPD, chatting, ICQ lists, an online bookstore, links to other resources, a clinician's forum and more.
MedHelp.org Borderline Personality Articles
An extensive archive of Q& A'S from MedHelp.org's mental health discusssion forum, where qualified medical professionals feild inquiries from consumers.
Mental-Health-Matters.com: BPD Section
Info on BPD criteria, symptoms, causes, treatments and medication. Also lists articles, info on related disorders, access to message boards, an online journal and more.
Middle Path
Middle Path is a non-profit mental health organization whose mission is to provide education, advocacy and support for those affected by borderline personality disorder. Since 2004, Middle Path has provided a critical perspective on living with and recovering from BPD through development and distribution of educational materials; partnering with professional and advocacy organizations to promote consumer/professional collaboration; speaking on BPD symptoms, treatment and recovery; providing consumer consultation services and advocating for treatment, stigma reduction and insurance parity.
Monitor on Psychology: Personality Disorders
A special issue of the American Psychologists Association's Monitor that features a number of articles on treatment for BPD, tips for approaching insurance case managers, and Axis II.
National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists
The NACBT promotes cognitive-behavioral therapy. Their website provides the latest information on CBT and features an online bookstore, referral page and links to the websites of NACBT members' websites.
National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder
The mission of the NEA-BPD is to raise public awareness, provide education, promote research on borderline personality disorder, and enhance the quality of life of those affected by this serious mental illness. They work to advance the BPD agenda by supporting programs and initiatives that include leading family education programs, hosting annual conferences, establishing family centers, research, publishing education materials and more.
Personnalité Limite
Information sur le trouble de personnalité limite (version anglaise).
RevolutionHealth.com: Borderline Personality Disorder Community
A peer networking online community that offers members their own profile page, blogging, personal stories of others suffering with BPD, a Q & A function, support groups, a message board, discussion forum and more. Membership is free of charge.
SoyBorderline.com
TLP, Borderline, Trastorno Limite de la Personalidad, foro tlp, abusos sexuales infantiles.
Suite101.com: Borderline Personality
Articles, links, a regular column, recommended reading, links to other BPD sites and a discussion forum. Also check out Suite 101: Personality Disorders.
The MoodGYM Training Program
Serving over 100,000 consumers, this free Australian self help online program teaches Cognitive Behaviour Therapy skills to people vulnerable to depression and anxiety. The site's multimedia presentations and graphics requires Flash 4.0 plug in, JavaScript enabled and 'Cookies' must be enabled to register and log in. A service of the Australian National University.
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Treatment & Research Advancements ~ National Association for Personality Disorder
Founded in 1995, TARA~NPD, is the only national nonprofit educational and advocacy organization for BPD. Their mission is to raise public awareness, increase research funding, and ensure availability of evidence-based treatment and translation of research findings into practice. To raise awareness, they sponsor workshops and symposia at conferences nationwide. TARA~NPD affiliates provide family education and support groups. They also actively advocate for increased funding for BPD research and treatment on Capitol Hill and with local, state, and federal. agencies concerned with consumers afflicted with Borderline. TARA~NPD maintains a resource and referral center as well as a national helpline: 1-886-4-TARA APD. |
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