Days of Our Lives Actress Linsey Godfrey Opens Up About Life with Mental Illness: ‘I Knew I Wasn’t OK’
I had been struggling for so long, and I knew I wasn’t okay,” Godfrey, 33, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “Even though it was a big, awful pill to swallow, I was relieved to finally have an answer and not just, ‘You’re a s—– person.’ ”
Why Do Mental Health Professionals Avoid Diagnosing Borderline Personality Disorder?
Mental health providers can be reluctant to diagnose BPD and other personality disorders due to diagnosis criteria, insurance, and stigma.
In ‘Healing,’ a Doctor Calls for an Overhaul of the Mental Health Care System
In this interview with Dr. Thomas Insel, the author of the book Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health, NPR’s Rhitu Chatterjee highlights the author’s argument for an overhaul of the mental health care system: “But in the very first...
Young People Are Using TikTok to Diagnose Themselves With Serious Mental Health Disorders. What’s Behind This Trend?
This everydayhealth.com article from Michele Pugle discusses the worrying trend of TikTok users self-diagnosing serious mental health disorders with no professional help. While TikTok has been helpful in raising awareness and destigmatizing Borderline Personality...
Why People with Borderline Personality Are Treated So Poorly
This Psychology Today article from Susan Krauss Whitbourne Ph.D. lays out the long history of stigma toward people living with Borderline Personality Disorder, even among mental health professionals: “Stigma about psychological disorders can make life even more...
Should I do Residential Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder?
While we continue to learn more about Borderline Personality Disorder, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: not everyone experiences BPD in the same way. Because of that, forms of treatment may vary from person to person, or even a combination of borderline...
How to navigate dating when you have borderline personality disorder (BPD)
BPD is one of the most stigmatized mental health disorders. As a result, some believe those with the disorder are unworthy of being loved. The emotional instability of those with BPD creates a vicious cycle whereby actions to cope with the burden of stigma exacerbate the condition
Why it can feel impossible to get a BPD diagnosis
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Seth Axelrod: A Remembrance
The Borderline Personality Disorder community suffered a painful loss this week.
