Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder: Encyclopedia - Borderline personality disorder

In psychiatry, borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a personality disorder characterised by extreme "black and white" thinking, mood swings, emotional reasoning, disrupted relationships and difficulty in functioning in a way society accepts as normal. The name comes from the DSM-IV-TR; the ICD-10 has an equivalent called Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder, borderline type. Psychiatrists describe borderline personality disorder as a serious disorder characterized by pervasive instability in mood, interpersonal ...

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Borderline personality disorder - Diagnostic criteria

Borderline personality disorder - Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Borderline Personality Disorder: Encyclopedia II - Borderline personality disorder - Symptoms While a person with depression or bipolar disorder typically endures the same mood for weeks, a person with BPD may experience intense bouts of anger, depression and anxiety that may last only hours, or at most a day. These may be associated with episodes of impulsive aggression, self-injury including cutting, and drug or alcohol abuse. Distortions in cognition and sense of self can lead to frequent changes in long-term goals, career plans, jobs, friendships, gender identity, and values. Sometimes people with BPD view themselves as fundament ...

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Bipolar disorder - Principles

Bipolar disorder - Prognosis

Borderline Personality Disorder: Encyclopedia - Bipolar spectrum

The bipolar spectrum is the continuous range of depressive diseases, ranging from bipolar disorder to unipolar depression. A simple nomenclature system was introduced in 1978, although there are others, by Angst, J., et al, to easier label individuals' affectedness within the spectrum, following a clinical study by the Psychiatric University Clinic of Zurich. Points on the spectrum using this nomenclature are denoted using the following codes: 'M' severe mania 'D' severe depression (unipolar depression) 'm' less severe mania ...

Borderline Personality Disorder: Encyclopedia - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association, is the handbook used most often in diagnosing mental disorders in the United States and internationally. The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) is a commonly-used alternative. Some psychologists have stated that they use DSM primarily for completing forms for the government or insurance companies, some of which require a patient to be classified by a diag ...

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Borderline Personality Disorder: Encyclopedia - Mindfulness

Mindfulness is the practice whereby a person is intentionally aware of his or her thoughts and actions in the present moment, non-judgmentally. Mindfulness is applied to both bodily actions and the mind's own thoughts and feelings. In Buddhism, the second kind of mindfulness is considered a prerequisite for developing insight and wisdom. Right Mindfulness is the seventh path from the Noble Eightfold Path, which i ...

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Borderline Personality Disorder: Encyclopedia - Adopted child syndrome

Adopted child syndrome is the name for an alleged set of symptoms associated primarily with children who have been adopted or separated from their parent/s at a very early age. Advocates alleged that when a mother is parted from her child, it causes a psychological wound that can only be healed through the reunion of mother and child. The trauma caused by the severing of the individual from his or her mother lies at the core of what is a ...

Borderline Personality Disorder: Encyclopedia II - Borderline personality disorder - Treatment

Treatments for BPD have improved in recent years. People with BPD, who are often distressed by at least some of their symptoms, typically undertake a series of empirical trials of drugs to see whether anything helps them, and may end up taking no drugs at all. Since about 1989, Prozac and other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants (SSRIs) have repeatedly been shown to improve the symptoms of BPD in some patients. The book, Listening to Prozac describes some of these remarkable changes. In general, it takes a h ...

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