Seth Axelrod: A Remembrance
The Borderline Personality Disorder community suffered a painful loss this week.
10 Core Beliefs of Personality Disorders
“Schema” are enduring thought patterns learned early on that filter our view of the world and how to interact with it.
Understanding the maladaptive schema of personality-disordered people can help put their behaviors into perspective.
Personality-disorder-related core schema include abandonment, incompetence, control, belonging, suspiciousness, entitlement, and status.
A Critical Sign of Borderline Personality Disorder
A recent study provides convincing evidence of a tendency among those with borderline personality disorder to expect the worst of people.
We Are Still Fighting the Stigma of Borderline Personality Disorder
TW: Discussion of suicide and self-harm “When I was diagnosed with BPD in 1990, I was 29. The psychiatrists at the hospital where I’d been admitted following my second suicide attempt told my parents the prognosis was poor and not to hope too much. I could...
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
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
