Harmony United Psychiatric Care

MAY 9, 2023

Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is a mental health condition. People with PPD may perceive others as hostile, manipulative, or threatening, even in the absence of evidence. They may also interpret benign remarks or actions as veiled attacks or insults, leading to an ongoing state of hypervigilance and anxiety.

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Harmony United Psychiatric Care

JUNE 16, 2022

An antisocial personality disorder is a mental health condition that makes it difficult to relate to other people, follow the rules and laws, and feel empathy. People with antisocial personality disorder are often called “psychopaths.”

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Harmony United Psychiatric Care

JUNE 23, 2022

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder is a mental health condition often confused with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). And while they share some similarities, they’re two distinct disorders. OCPD is diagnosed in about 1% of the general population.

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Harmony United Psychiatric Care

JUNE 4, 2023

If so, you might have Narcissistic Personality Disorder. What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder? Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) […] Do people often describe you as “selfish” or “careless,” even though you’d like to be liked by everyone?

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From Both Sides of the Couch

AUGUST 19, 2024

Personal Perspective: As I recover from surgery, I'm transported back to the days when I used to cut myself to numb emotional pain.

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Harmony United Psychiatric Care

JUNE 27, 2022

It’s time to learn about Avoidant Personality Disorder, a mental health condition that can severely impact your life. Avoidant Personality Disorder is a mental illness that causes a person to avoid social relationships and activities and emotional intimacy. What is Avoidant Personality Disorder?

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Harmony United Psychiatric Care

JUNE 30, 2022

It may be time to find out if you have Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD). A paranoid personality disorder is a mental illness that affects 1% of the population. People with this disorder tend to be suspicious and mistrustful of […] Are you a little too suspicious?

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Harmony United Psychiatric Care

JUNE 20, 2022

Dependent Personality Disorder is one of the most common personality disorders, affecting about 3% of the population. The disorder affects men and women […] Unfortunately, it’s also one of the least understood.

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Harmony United Psychiatric Care

JUNE 13, 2022

Histrionic Personality Disorder is a mental health condition characterized by excessive attention-seeking, emotional involvement, and an unhealthy need for approval from others. It’s estimated that about 1% of the population has this disorder.

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The Mental Elf

APRIL 10, 2025

Amanda Sabo reviews a study on experiences of stigma, misdiagnosis, care and advocacy, for autistic adults previously diagnosed with borderline personality disorder - and identifies the need for diagnostic training for mental healthcare providers.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It’s tragic that these people may then be wrongly labelled as personality disordered, bipolar, or psychotic. A person may come into hospital on no drugs at all, only to leave with several psychiatric drugs, often causing adverse side effects which leads to more prescriptions to counteract the side effects.

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Mad in America

APRIL 8, 2025

If I had been confronted with terms like ADHD, insecure attachment, impaired top-down control, attenuated mesolimbic pathways, a hyper-active amygdala, multiple personality disorders, and substance use disorder, I might have believed that only highly trained professionals held the key to my recovery.

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Mad in America

APRIL 29, 2025

In the biomedical model, this typically refers to constructs labeled as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe major depression, or personality disorders, etc. This can disrupt ones sense of self-integration and/or provoke profound inner torment, which may or may not interfere with major life activities.

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ADDitude

APRIL 22, 2025

A deep understanding of coexisting conditions across various life stages would also improve evaluation and diagnoses of disorders that often co-occur with ADHD. Read: Why Do Comorbid Conditions Uniquely Impact Women with ADHD?

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Trends in Diagnosis One day, I mustered the courage to ask him if my assumption that I might have borderline personality disorder was accurate. He chuckled and retorted, “You think you have borderline personality disorder? But you don’t have borderline personality disorder.”

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

CPTSD survivors may be diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. CPTSD can cause fragmentation, dissociation, and other needed methods of coping. CPTSD causes lack of trust, shame, and voicelessness. Complex trauma survivors long to be loved. CPTSD is so deeply ingrained in the nervous system and self-view, it’s hard to see.

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Mad in America

MARCH 13, 2025

I got two diagnoses, borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder with ultra-rapid cycling, a fact that I hid throughout my whole time of service for the hospital. My childhood, my upbringing, that’s part of another story. The fear of possible repercussions was too great.

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Psychiatric Times

MAY 2, 2025

Stay informed with this week's highlights, including more on deep brain stimulation, innovative assessments for borderline personality disorder, and athlete mental health research.

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From Both Sides of the Couch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Personal Perspective: With borderline personality disorder, it makes a difference when you are diagnosed, and at what age.

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Harmony United Psychiatric Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Key Statistics on Suicide: Multifaceted Causes of Suicide: Among others, mental pain, disorders, and exposure to maltreatment are significant risk factors for suicidal behavior. This link between suicide and cognitive disorders (in particular, depression and […]

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Mad in America

MAY 12, 2025

A third example includes the historical diagnosis of Masochistic Personality Disorder specifically applied to women who remained in abusive relationships, a sleight of hand which again involves blaming the victim, rather than placing the problem within the perpetrator, or even the system that enables it (Herman, 1997).

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My Psychiatry

APRIL 15, 2025

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a complex mental health condition marked by intense emotions, unstable relationships, a fluctuating self-image, and impulsive behaviors. While not officially recognized in the DSM-5, quiet BPD is a widely acknowledged presentation of borderline personality disorder.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A very good example of this are the many unnecessary hospitalisations of those diagnosed with borderline personality disorder who present with self-harm.

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ADDitude

MAY 14, 2025

Autistic girls and women with ADHD are often diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. They also get misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder and, more commonly, with obsessive-compulsive disorder ( OCD ). Q: What are the common misdiagnoses given to girls and women with ADHD and autism?

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Their protests to the contrary have even been seen as indications of a personality disorder. Their more complex and debilitating withdrawal symptoms have been regarded as a return of their own symptoms. Yes, sadly, I recently heard a third-year resident in psychiatry dismiss concerns about antidepressant withdrawal in just this way.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Since I suspected it was a dubious concept, I looked it up on the Internet and found a test for schizotypal personality disorder. I did exactly that in my two books about psychiatry. 8 She should never have had a psychiatric diagnosis or been treated with drugs. 646 You should reply true or false, or yes or no, to nine questions.

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Bullet Psych

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Individuals with other mental disorders may display a disordered relationship with food or their body image but not meet full criteria for BN.

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Bullet Psych

JANUARY 22, 2023

Other psychiatric conditions in the differential diagnosis include mood disorders (increase appetite and weight gain = atypical feature specifier) or borderline personality disorder (binge eating = impulsive behavior criterion). If the full criteria for both disorders are met, both diagnoses can be given.

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Kids Mental Health Info

APRIL 6, 2015

. “Dialectical” refers to the issues involved in treating patients with multiple disorders and to the type of thought processes and behavioral styles used in the treatment strategies.

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Bullet Psych

AUGUST 15, 2022

There is also an association between mood disorders , impulsivity, personality disorders (most commonly borderline PD ), and anxiety disorders.

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Child Mind Intitute

DECEMBER 12, 2024

DBT was initially created by Marsha Linehan, PhD, to help adults with borderline personality disorder learn to regulate their emotions and behavior. But you can improve communication with your child by practicing skills taught in dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT).

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Bullet Psych

JUNE 28, 2020

Examples of themes include psychotic disorders, treatment resistant depression, emergency psychiatry, personality disorders, etc. Each week of material will have a THEME. Most themes will take a few weeks to cover.

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The Maryland Psychiatric Society

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Telehealth is available. We do offer self-pay and sliding-scale payments. Treatment modalities Psychopharmacology/medication management, Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, Play Therapy and Autism Diagnostic Evaluation.

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The Maryland Psychiatric Society

MARCH 26, 2025

Telehealth is available. We do offer self-pay and sliding-scale payments. Treatment modalities Psychopharmacology/medication management, Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, Play Therapy and Autism Diagnostic Evaluation.

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Solara Mental Health

JULY 6, 2023

Now in her 50s, she spent her late twenties and thirties battling anorexia, major depression , and borderline personality disorder. Website: [link] About This Blog: Gerri Luce is a licensed clinical social worker, publishing under a pseudonym to share her experience and insights.

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Solara Mental Health

JUNE 10, 2022

These disorders can be both medical and psychiatric. These disorders may include: Post-traumatic stress disorder Anxiety disorders Bipolar disorders Depressive disorders Personality disorders Suicidal Behavior In the military, substance abuse frequently precedes suicidal behavior.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

There I talk about depression, I talk about some of the so-called personality disorders. If any of the listeners wanted to find that, you can go to my website and you’ll see links to all the posts there.

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