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Childhood sexual abuse more than doubles the likelihood of developing psychosis
BPDFamily.com reports that a study published in the November Archives of General Psychiatry suggests that children who are sexually abused may be at twice the risk for developing schizophrenia and...
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Do You Have Healthy Boundaries?
bpdfamily.com reminds us of the importance of honoring our own values.Everyone has a personal code of values. We all have codes with respect to finances, romance, parenting, lifestyle preferences,...
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Do people with Borderline Personality Disorder lack of Empathy?
To show empathy is to identify with another person’s feelings. Empathy is a sophisticated human response.It begins with awareness of another person's feelings. It would be easier to be aware of other...
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Leaving a Person With Borderline Personality Disorder
The beginnings of a relationship with a person with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can be intoxicating when your partner is brimming with jubilation because you are in their life. Then...
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A better book than Stop Walking on Eggshells
Your therapist probably recommended Stop Walking on Eggshells - many do - this 1996 self-help guide for the family members of a person with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is well known among...
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How to support someone with Borderline Personality Disorder
For any family members or relationship partners of a person suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder, bpdfamily.com may be a helpful resource. We teach our members healthy ways to support and...
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Is the APA labeling the “problems of daily living” as disease?
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is published by the American Psychiatric Association and provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of...
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Audio: Untangling the Internal Struggles of Borderline Personality Disorder
In this 12 minute audio Amy Tibbitts, LSCSW discusses the day to day struggles of a person with Borderline Personality Disorder (pwBPD) and the basic principles behind Dialectical Behavioral Therapy....
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Marsha Linehan Reveals Her Own Fight with Borderline Personality Disorder
Dr. Linehan had a ready answer. It was the one she always used to cut the question short, whether a patient asked it hopefully, accusingly or knowingly, having glimpsed the macramé of faded burns, cuts...
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A Person with Borderline Personality Disorder Doesn't have the Emotional...
Did you ever ask someone to scratch your back and they keep missing the itchy spot?How irritating that is even though you ask them "to go up, now to the left, harder, up and down" and sometimes even...
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The most common mental health conditions.
There are many different conditions that are recognized as mental illnesses. According to BPDFamily.com, the more common types include:Anxiety disorders: People with anxiety disorders respond to...
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Does My Girlfriend/Boyfriend Have Borderline Personality Disorder?
A person suffering with Borderline Personality Disorder is often not as they seem.Are you trying to determine if someone in your life may suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder? You will soon...
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Is Your Marriage Breaking Down?
BPDFamily.com encourages couples to spot the classic pattern of relationship breakdown and take action before it goes too far.According to Mark Dombeck, Ph.D., Director of Mental Help Net and former...
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Are the Children of a BPD Parent Likely to Suffer Emotional Abuse?
The short answer is "yes." Do you know a mother who suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder - possibly your daughter in law - your wife - a friend? Did you know that even when the family appears...
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28% of the US population have either a mental or addictive disorder
According to BPDFamily.com, the US Surgeon General estimates that 28% of the US population suffer from either a mental or addictive disorder in a given year.The current prevalence estimate is that...
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Why Breaking-up is Hard to Do
The Biology of Breaking UpOur brains are wired for bonding. Break-ups challenge us biologically. According to Rutgers University anthropologist Helen Fisher, everyone biologically reacts to rejection...
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Does the expression "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" remind you of your spouse or...
A member at BPDfamily.com , writes: "I thought I was with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." In the 1931 film adaptation, of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dr. Jekyll...
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Video: Validation -- encouraging peace in a "BPD family".
In his talk on October 18, 2008 in Minneapolis, MN, Alan Fruzzetti, Ph.D. explores what it means to give someone a validating response rather than an invalidating response and how validating responses...
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Video: Adolescence and Borderline Personality Disorder
What is the difference between otherwise normal adolescence behavior and adolescence behavior associated with Borderline Personality Disorder?Borderline Personality Disorder is not often diagnosed in...
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Video: What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Trying to determine if someone in your life suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder and what can be done about it? You will soon find out that this is a complex question.When in the midst of a...
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Video: The Importance of Empathy Skills when Supporting a Person with BPD
Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's condition from their perspective. You effectively place yourself in their shoes and feel what they are feeling.Participate in Member...
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What is Parental Alienation?
After the divorce it is not uncommon for one or both parents to share their frustration about the other parent with the children or in front of the children. After fighting hard for custody, it's not...
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85% of pwBPD Go Into Remission
Although borderline personality disorder (BPD) has traditionally been considered a chronic and intractable disease, it is has high remission and low relapse rates, new research suggests.Collaborative...
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What is a Personality Disorder?
Perhaps you suspect that your loved one has a "personality disorder". Perhaps someone has told you that they think that you have a "personality disorder". You may not know what they are talking about....
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Borderline Personality - A View From Inside
"I am borderline" is a short film staring Danielle Keaton about borderline personality disorder from the inside. This short film (4:35 minutes) was written and directed Betsy Usher in Los Angles. The...
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