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Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by severe, unstable mood swings, impulsivity and instability, poor self-image and stormy relationships.
https://www.nami.org/About-Mental-Illness/Mental-Health-Conditions/Borderline-Personality-Disorder 8/10/2014 10:26:14 AM
Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder
  Selfish. Manipulative. Untreatable. Clingy. This is how people (even mental health professionals) describe those who live with Borderline Personality Disorder ( BPD ). But considering what a person experiencing BPD deals with daily, these labels aren’t fair. “People with...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/June-2017/Understanding-Borderline-Personality-Disorder 6/5/2017 10:15:33 AM
Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar Disorder: What’s the Difference?
  Getting the right diagnosis often isn’t easy for psychiatric conditions. In our field, we don’t yet have biologic tests that can easily define one condition from another. If your blood pressure is 140 over 90, you have hypertension or high blood pressure. In mental heal...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/June-2017/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-and-Bipolar-Disord 6/12/2017 10:50:35 AM
Why Borderline Personality Disorder is Misdiagnosed
  Living with Borderline Personality Disorder ( BPD ) is difficult for many reasons, including unstable relationships, emotional reactivity and dysregulation, impulsivity, and other challenging features. But what makes the condition even harder is that many people who liv...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/October-2017/Why-Borderline-Personality-Disorder-is-Misdiagnose 10/3/2017 10:08:54 AM
Offering Hope for Borderline Personality Disorder
  Somewhere between 2-5% of the U.S. population lives with Borderline Personality Disorder ( BPD ). This disorder is highly treatable, and individuals often live with other mental health conditions as BPD rarely stands alone. Without recognition and treatment of BPD’s sympto...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/June-2017/Offering-Hope-for-Borderline-Personality-Disorder 6/14/2017 10:29:37 AM
Therapeutic Alliance
I am 54 years old and I struggled with the intense pain and chaos of borderline personality disorder for decades…I felt that I was too old to heal.
https://www.nami.org/Personal-Stories/Therapeutic-Alliance 4/6/2017 12:00:38 PM
Quarantining with Borderline Personality Disorder
I love the optimistic reframe of saying we are “safe at home” over being “stuck at home” during this COVID-19 crisis, though it’s also important to allow a judgement-free place to address challenges in the situation.    I struggle with depression, PTSD, anxiety and  Bor...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/April-2020/Quarantining-with-Borderline-Personality-Disorder 4/24/2020 11:49:36 AM
The Stigma Associated with Borderline Personality Disorder
  Even though mental health advocates actively fight stigma associated with mental illness, Borderline Personality Disorder ( BPD ) remains one of the field’s most misunderstood, misdiagnosed and stigmatized conditions. Studies show that even some mental health profession...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/June-2017/The-Stigma-Associated-with-Borderline-Personality 6/28/2017 12:51:23 PM
Borderline Personality Disorder Myths and Facts
One of the conditions I have lived with is  borderline personality disorder  (BPD). I was diagnosed with emerging BPD when I was 14 years old, which was changed to BPD when I was 18. To be diagnosed, you need to have a combination of  five out of nine of the following sympt...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/October-2019/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Myths-and-Facts 10/11/2019 1:43:54 PM
The Inner Monologue of BPD
I’m Katie. I’m a 31-year-old mother of three. I have bipolar I and borderline personality disorder. This is just a glimpse of what goes through my head in a regular day.
https://www.nami.org/Personal-Stories/The-Inner-Monologue-of-BPD 3/23/2017 11:07:47 AM
Living with Mental Health Conditions
I live with severe depression and anxiety, PTSD, ADHD and borderline personality disorder. Out of all of them, BPD affects my life the most.
https://www.nami.org/Personal-Stories/Living-with-Mental-Health-Conditions 7/7/2017 10:25:07 AM
The Story of Us
I live with dissociative identity disorder, once known as multiple personality disorder. My story is one of redemption, courage and inner strength.
https://www.nami.org/Personal-Stories/The-Story-of-Us 7/7/2015 10:58:51 AM
My Struggle With Borderline Personality Disorder
I began my long journey of trying to find psychiatrists, medications and therapy that were right for me. I had no idea how much time, money and effort this would take.
https://www.nami.org/Personal-Stories/My-Struggle-With-Borderline-Personality-Disorder 11/30/2016 11:42:13 AM
Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
  Imagine having difficulty controlling your thoughts and actions. Imagine that your sense-of-self is almost entirely dependent on your relationships with others. Imagine struggling to manage stress, rejection or conflict. This is what it’s like to live with Borderline Pe...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/June-2017/Treating-Borderline-Personality-Disorder 6/7/2017 10:24:12 AM
Supporting Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder
  “The things I struggle with the most are the feelings of abandonment, feeling like people are always mad at me, the self-hatred and self-harm.” says Katie, who lives with Borderline Personality Disorder ( BPD ). You might notice these symptoms are all related to relatio...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/June-2017/Supporting-Someone-with-Borderline-Personality-Dis 6/23/2017 12:05:46 PM
Early Intervention for Borderline Personality Disorder
When I was in my twenties, I was using cocaine, starving and cutting myself. I destroyed a promising career in marketing due to multiple long-term hospitalizations for severe anorexia. After I was discharged from the eating disorder unit for the second time, my company dism...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/August-2020/Early-Intervention-for-Borderline-Personality-Disorder 8/5/2020 2:36:55 PM
A Letter to Someone Who Doesn't Understand
Aspects of my personality left me susceptible to BPD. It’s not something that be cured. There’s no pill to treat it. The meds I take, however, help with the symptoms.
https://www.nami.org/Personal-Stories/A-Letter-to-Someone-Who-Doesn-t-Understand 10/6/2016 11:43:37 AM
Dissociative Disorders
Dissociative disorders, which are frequently associated with trauma, disrupt every area of psychological functioning: consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, motor control and behavior.
https://www.nami.org/About-Mental-Illness/Mental-Health-Conditions/Dissociative-Disorders 10/8/2014 4:14:33 AM
June 13-16: NAMI National Convention in Orlando
Leading Experts, Consumers and Families to Address Mental Health Recovery, Science, Policy Issues, includin Florida perspectives. TV journalist Jane Pauley to receive award
https://www.nami.org/Press-Media/Press-Releases/2008/June-13-16-NAMI-National-Convention-in-Orlando 9/23/2014 9:39:29 AM
Tayler's Story
When I was about 13 years old, I told my parents that I didn’t feel right. They thought it was just a phase all teenagers go through.
https://www.nami.org/Personal-Stories/Tayler-s-Story 11/6/2015 1:49:12 PM
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