Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline personality disorder is a mental health disorder that impacts the way you think and feel about yourself and others, causing problems functioning in everyday life. It includes self-image issues, difficulty managing emotions and behavior, and a pattern of unstable relationships.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W026
Diagnosis: Borderline Personality Disorder
US Patients: 1.6% in a year
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: M;F3
Age Onset: 18
Brain Area: frontolimbic neurons; hippocampus; orbitofrontal cortex; amygdala; dopamine
Symptoms: unstable relationships, strong emotional reactions, self-harm; paranoia
Progression: fear rejection and abandonment; highly impulsive, self-harm by cutting
Causes: child abuse; ptsd; heritability-50%;smaller amygdala, hippocampus – smaller; dopamine and estrogen involved
Medications: None help, but antipsychotics may reduce suicidal intentions; mood stabilizers may avert suicides.
Therapies: CBT helped 50% with personal relationships but lower percentages with vocational situations.
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Borderline Personality Disorder.
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Support Group: nami.org; 800-950-6264
(National Alliance on Mental Illness)
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Section 12.08.
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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The world-wide medical research
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- Rebuilding the Evidence on the use of Lithium for Borderline Personality Disorderby Thales Marcon Almeida on January 22, 2025
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- Borderline in a linear city: Urban living brings borderline personality disorder to crisis through neuroplasticity-an urgent call to actionby Mohamed Hesham Khalil on January 21, 2025
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- The McLean Screening Instrument for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Reviewby Farah Semaan on January 21, 2025
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) poses significant challenges for early identification and diagnosis due to its intricate symptomatology that overlaps with other psychiatric illnesses. To address this challenge, the McLean Screening Instrument for BPD (MSI-BPD) was developed to identify individuals displaying potential BPD symptoms. This review aims to consolidate the current limited body of research on the MSI-BPD, delving into its origins, the rigor of its validation process, its...
- Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms and Stressful Life Events: An Evaluation of Gene-Environment Interplayby Vilde Sofie Arneberg on January 20, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: BPD symptomatology following SLEs cannot fully be explained by genetic and shared environmental factors. The SLE-BPD symptoms associations were primarily due to selection by family environments. It is important to identify familial factors that lead to both SLEs and BPD symptoms. SLEs remained associated with BPD symptoms beyond genetic and environmental confounding.