Monthly Archives: February 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 →

Symptoms OF BPD There are nine specific diagnostic criteria (symptoms) for borderline personality disorder defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (referred to as DSM-IV-TR, or just DSM-IV) published in 2000 by the … Continue reading →

What is BPD? Borderline personality disorder is a disturbance of certain brain functions that causes four types of behavioral disturbances: 1.poorly regulated and excessive emotional responses; 2.harmful impulsive actions; 3.distorted perceptions and impaired reasoning; and 4.markedly disturbed relationships. The symptoms … Continue reading →

The Dark Side of Hypomania While working on the American Psychiatric Association’s latest DSM version of bipolar disorder (IV-TR), Trisha Suppes MD, PhD of the University of Texas Medical Center in Dallas carefully read its criteria for hypomania, and had … Continue reading →

Abstract BACKGROUND: Patients with atypical depression are more likely to respond to monoamine oxidase inhibitors than to tricyclic antidepressants. They are frequently offered psychotherapy in the absence of controlled tests. There are no prospective, randomized, controlled trials, to our knowledge, … Continue reading →

In addition to the core symptoms of depression, atypical depression is defined by the ability to feel better temporarily in response to a positive life event, plus any two of the following criteria: excessive sleep, overeating, a feeling of heaviness … Continue reading →