If You Find Validation Confusing, This May Help

If You Find Validation Confusing, This May Help

In the early 1980’s Marsha Linehan, PhD, developed a breakthrough treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and other psychological difficulties. She called it Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). A key component in DBT is a set of social skills that...
A New Pathway to Change in Borderline Personality Disorder

A New Pathway to Change in Borderline Personality Disorder

With its symptoms involving longstanding and deep-seated difficulties in identity, relationships, and coping with emotions, it might seem that borderline personality disorder (BPD) might be baked into an individual’s ability to manage in everyday life.

Emotional Truths of Borderline Personality Disorder

Emotional Truths of Borderline Personality Disorder

Some of borderline personality disorder’s reputation of being difficult to treat comes from the antiquated idea that BPD is intractable and that people with BPD have a character problem that makes them attention-seeking and help-rejecting