When a teen or adult child has Borderline Personality Disorder
When your adult or teen child has Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), it doesn’t just impact the person with the disorder. The instable relationship patterns of BPD often have serious implications for the entire family, friends and romantic partners. To move forward it helps to understand the struggles your child faces and to learn the skills necessary to improve our relationship, provide a constructive environment, and find peace in our own life. Want to know more? Read on.
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Abuse by parents, intentional or inadvertent, is a common factor in the development of Borderline Personality Disorder. It is very hard to sit face to face with a medical professional and not wonder if they are thinking that you...All, Perspectiveallperspective -
Recovery from any mental illness is significantly faster for individuals having committed family support. For the family, being an emotional caretaker requires strength, love, realistic expectations, and preserving your own...All, Psychologyallpsychology -
What can we do? Loved ones will devise illogical and bizarre explanations for symptoms stemming from their illness and have a compulsion to prove to others that they are not ill, despite negative consequences of doing so.All, Psychology, Perspective, Videosallpsychologyperspectivevideos -
The answer is that there is no blood test or simple check list for personality disorders. To evaluate someone in your life requires learning about the disorders and getting a good sense of the persons emotional "lifetime" - how...All, Psychology, Perspectiveallpsychologyperspective -
What is Depression?Feeling down from time to time is a normal part of life, but when emotions such as hopelessness and despair take hold and just won't go away, you may have depression. Mild to moderate depression makes it tough...All, Psychologyallpsychology -
When people find themselves in conflict with another person, they will reach out to a third person creating a triangle. While often a stabilizing factor, triangulation can also be very destabilizing - causing more turmoil and...All, Psychology, Perspectiveallpsychologyperspective -
Fear, obligation and guilt are the transactional dynamics at play when we feel that we are being controlled by others. Controlling or being controlled is a transaction between two people with both playing a part; the "controller...All, Psychologyallpsychology -
Read the complete and unabridged classification of Borderline Personality Disorder as published by the American Psychiatric Association. This is a rare look at the definition used by professionals to ensure uniform diagnosis.Psychologypsychology -
Diagnostic Criteria 313.81 (F91.3) A. A pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness lasting at least 6 months as evidenced by at least four symptoms from any of the following categories, and...Psychologypsychology
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The "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders," is a comprehensive classification of officially recognized psychiatric disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association , for use by mental health...All, Psychologyallpsychology
