Borderline Personality Disorder

- Prevalence: 2% of adultsNIMH: Borderline Personality Disorder
- More common in womenNIMH: Borderline Personality Disorder
- Make up 20% of psychiatric hospitalizationsNIMH: Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline personality disorder involves extensive volatility within behavior, moods, self-image, and interpersonal relationships.NIMH: Borderline Personality Disorder
Symptoms
- Impulsive behavior/actions
- Unsafe sex
- Drug abuse
- Short bursts of anxiety/depression
- Suicidal thoughts
- Fear of being alone
- Self-injury
- View of the world/people as all good or all bad
Disclaimer

The content in this page is not a substitute for professional medical advice. If you think you have borderline personality disorder, please consult your doctor.

Borderline Personality Disorder News
- Full recovery now possible for an 'untreatable' mental illness
  
  Patients coping with the chaos and misery of Borderline Personality Disorder now have reason for strong confidence in making major life changes through a ... (November 18, 2009)
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- Don has Borderline Personality Disorder
  
  Throughout this season it has become apparent to me that Don has Borderline Personality Disorder. The key things that "sealed it" for me are: - dissociation ... (November 09, 2009)
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- Man charged with stalking Ryan Seacrest
  
  What makes this health related is that stalkers often share a common trait, Borderline Personality Disorder. Individuals with borderline personality ... (November 03, 2009)
  Examiner.com
- Schema therapy offers hope for mental disorder patients
  
  Three major outcome studies have shown that many patients with 'borderline personality disorder' - can fully recover across the complete spectrum of ... (November 21, 2009)
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Borderline Personality Disorder on Amazon
- Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified: An Essential Guide for Understanding and Living with BPD - $15.95
  
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  For family members of people with borderline personality disorder (BPD), home life is routinely unpredictable and frequently unbearable. Extreme mood swings, impulsive behaviors, a...
  
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- The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide - $16.95
  
  The book is organized as a series of answers to questions common to BPD sufferers: What is BPD? How long does it last? What other problems co-occur with BPD? Overviews what we ...
  
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