Articles on Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder: Causes and Treatment
Borderline Personality Disorder is one of the most common of the personality disorders, affecting approximately 15% of the population. Sufferers typically indulge in intense but stormy relationships, have difficulty exerting control over their emotions, display marked impulsivity in their behaviors, fear abandonment and may indulge in self-harming behaviors and suicidal thoughts... (Read more)

Borderline Personality Disorder: Diagnostic criteria
The term "Borderline Personality Disorder" is often bandied about by the media and laymen alike. Many of the behaviors that constitute the disorder are common to other disorders and indeed, normal human behavior. However for an accurate diagnosis to be made, a person must exhibit a pervasive pattern of instability in personal relationships, self esteem, and moods, in addition to marked impulsivity in behavior which typically begins in early adulthood... (Read more)

What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Although this disorder has a high profile, particularly in the media, there is often confusion about what this condition really is. As it is one of the most common of the personality disorders, manifesting in roughly 15% of the population, let's firstly investigate some of the classic symptoms of borderline personality disorder... (Read more)

Borderline Personality Disorder: Kerri's Story
Most people on first meeting Kerri might come away thinking that she is vivacious, intelligent and caring. However, it doesn't take too many meetings with Kerri to realize that something is just not right... (Read more)

Borderline Personality Disorder: Hope for Kerri
We looked at the day-to-day problems of living with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and focused on the lifestyle of Kerri, a vivacious yet erratic 39-year-old woman who lived life on a knife's edge. Kerri experienced periods of relative emotional stability but the periods of normality were always tenuous and could easily be displaced whenever an event occurred that threatened Kerri's emotional security. She feared being abandoned, yet sought love in the wrong places... (Read more)

Living with a Parent with Borderline Personality Disorder (1)
It's not easy living with any person who suffers from emotional instability but it is particularly difficult when you are a child in that situation. In fact, even when you are an adult, it can still be difficult to cope with such a parent. This is particularly the case with Borderline Personality Disorder... (Read more)

Living with a Parent with Borderline Personality Disorder (2)
In the first article of this series, we read about the difficulties a child encounters when their parent suffers from borderline personality disorder (BPD). We looked at the story of Anna, a 21-year-old woman whose mother suffered from BPD. Anna did well to become a functioning adult, but with her mother's erratic lifestyle and rapidly changing moods, Anna had many difficulties to cope with... (Read more)

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