Daily Archives: February 17, 2014

Co- occuring Disorders If you suffer from borderline disorder, you are more prone to develop certain other mental disorders than those who do not have borderline disorder.13,14 One of the most likely explanations of this is that some of the … Continue reading →

Causes For many years, it was commonly believed that the main cause of borderline personality disorder was poor or uninformed parenting. It now seems most likely that both environmental and biological factors, especially genetic ones, place a person at risk … Continue reading →

Course Of The Disorder Adolph Stern’s comprehensive description of the main features of borderline disorder in 1938 5 was followed by almost forty years of general ignorance of and pessimism about the disorder. Among many of those who knew something … Continue reading →

History Of The Disorder Initially, it was suggested that borderline disorder bordered on, or overlapped with schizophrenia, non-schizophrenic psychoses, and neuroses such as anxiety and depressive disorders.3 Because it overlapped with so many other psychiatric diagnoses, it was commonly believed … Continue reading →

Borderline Disorder From The Inside There is one study in the literature that provides an especially helpful perspective on borderline disorder that adds effectively to the information presented in the clinical description on this website.2 I believe that these reports … Continue reading →