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
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
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PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- An overview of the challenges with the differential diagnosis of schizotypal personality disorderby Katherine V Raffensperger on April 15, 2025
INTRODUCTION: Schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) has a long history and there is still considerable ongoing research. Although there are overlapping features of SPD and other personality disorders, the full constellation of schizotypal features is broader. The longitudinal course of SPD is variable, with differences in trajectory manifesting lifelong clinical significance. Particularly important is the relationship between SPD and prodromal states that may result in an eventual diagnosis of...
- Using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 restructured form to predict functioning after treatment for borderline personality disorder: A machine learning approachby Carlijn J M Wibbelink on April 15, 2025
Insight into predictors of functioning after treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD) is limited, despite growing recognition that more focus on other aspects of recovery, especially psychosocial functioning, is warranted. The present study explored the utility of a widely used omnibus assessment instrument, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF), to predict change in functioning during treatment for BPD. Data were obtained from a randomized...
- A pilot and feasibility study of Sage: A couple therapy for borderline personality disorderby Skye Fitzpatrick on April 15, 2025
Objective: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by emotion dysregulation and relationship dysfunction. However, the majority of BPD treatments provide individually-focused treatment and do not target relationship functioning or include significant others. The current paper presents the primary and secondary outcomes from an uncontrolled trial of Sage, a manualized conjoint treatment for people with BPD and their intimate partners that targets BPD, relationship conflict, and...
- Psychotherapies for adults with complex presentations of PTSD: a clinical guideline and five systematic reviews with meta-analysesby Julie Perrine Schaug on April 15, 2025
CONCLUSION: Weak clinical recommendations were reached for trauma-focused therapies with or without exposure for PTSD; DBT-for-PTSD for PTSD with co-occurring BPD; CPT, NET, PE and Mindfulness and body-focused psychotherapies for PTSD with co-occurring depression; and Skills training for C-PTSD. A weak recommendation was reached against PCT for PTSD with co-occurring depression. It is good practice to include interventions targeting dissociation for PTSD with co-occurring dissociation. Overall,...