When Symptoms Overlap
Psychology Today
APRIL 1, 2024
How experts differentiate borderline personality disorder from bipolar disorder and why it is important to know the difference
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Borderline Personality Disorder
Harmony United Psychiatric Care
JUNE 6, 2022
BPD is often misdiagnosed as depression or anxiety disorders. What is Borderline Personality Disorder? A borderline personality disorder is a mental illness characterized by emotional instability, extreme mood swings, impulsive behaviors, and unstable relationships. People who have BPD […]
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Understanding Paranoid Personality Disorder and How to Help Someone with It
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.
Anti-Social Personality Disorder (Psychopathy)
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.”
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
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.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder – Symptoms and Causes
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?
Borderline Personality Disorder and the Pain Paradox
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.
Avoidant Personality Disorder – Causes, Symptoms, and Diagnosis
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?
Histrionic Personality Disorder: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment
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.
Paranoid Personality Disorder: Causes, Risk Factors & More
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?
Dependent Personality Disorder –What You Should Know
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.
How I Developed a Critical Perspective on Psychiatry
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.
Why I Stopped Taking Antidepressants—and Was It Worth It?
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
At that time (and unfortunately still in Poland), psychiatry held the belief that people with personality disorders had a dysregulated hormonal balance, which, as a budding neuroscientist, made a lot of sense to me. I felt my personality changing—I was becoming less of a human and more like a robot.
Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2023
Mad in America
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Borderline Personality Disorder “No Longer Has a Place in Clinical Practice” Image depicts the thoughts and behaviors typically associated with BPD. In June, Micah Ingle wrote that researchers from the UK and New Zealand argue that Borderline Personality Disorder should be abandoned as a diagnostic category.
How Creativity and Flexibility in Therapy Changed My Healing Journey
Mad in America
OCTOBER 25, 2024
By that point, I had learned that DBT was developed to treat Borderline Personality Disorder, the symptoms of which I seemed to share. During a 15-minute consultation with a psychiatrist during this second hospitalization, I told the doctor that I’d done some research and that I probably had Borderline Personality Disorder.
Mad Camp Europe: My Journey from Ward Violence to Healing and Community
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.
On Psychotherapeutic Literacy
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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Injured, Not Broken: Why It’s So Hard to Know You Have CPTSD
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.
Escaping The Shackles of Psychiatry: What I’ve Seen and Survived, as Both Doctor and Patient
Mad in America
DECEMBER 1, 2023
On top of it, during the last few years, when I spent more time detained in hospital than at home, some of the nurses accused me of “not wanting to get better” and urged the doctors to label me with “personality disorder.” As a last resort, I underwent experimental psychosurgery in September 2001 (bilateral anterior cingulotomy).
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Animal Theory of Emotion: Emotion Is Not a Disorder
Mad in America
MARCH 12, 2024
Mental health awareness is a movement that has everyone seeking treatment and support for their “mood disorders” and “personality disorders” and “neurodivergency”, but this system isn’t leading to wellness—it’s impeding it.
The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Similarly, emphasizing a suspected trauma event of the past might inadvertently heighten anxiety in patients with panic disorder, as they begin to misattribute their symptoms to past trauma , exacerbating their panic symptoms. It is a serious disorder, reflecting the deep psychological scars left by genuine trauma.
Borderline Personality Diagnosis: Two Things That Matter
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.
Human
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
I asked my psychiatrist during our final consultation. Only a little bit,” they nonchalantly responded.
Comprehensive Suicide Prevention: Addressing Mental Health and the Role of Telepsychiatry
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 […]
What Is Beyond a Diagnosis?
Mad in America
JULY 25, 2024
She had left with 10 diagnoses including learning difficulties, borderline personality disorder and PTSD and multiple medications. She takes exams and gets into University only to be told that her mental health record prevents them from offering her a place. So she goes back to the hospital to ask for a recommendation.
Who Can Consent to Research—and What Does That Mean for Forced Treatment?
Mad in America
DECEMBER 24, 2024
Feelings are a feedback system just like pain, whether its anxiety leading to a panic alarm, depression leading to a fatigue alarm, or personality disorder leading to a self-harm alarm. We all have an innate wellbeing system that works by sending us feelings to let us know when we are off, heading in a destructive direction.
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The Emperor’s New Clothes? The Psychiatrist as Expert in a Post-Modern World
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.
Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Clinician’s Middle View
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.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Three)
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.
Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children
Mad in America
MARCH 21, 2024
There were 14 versus 3 discontinuations (P = 0.02) among the 228 versus 190 children for reasons related to suicide and violence (suicide attempt, euphoria, manic reaction, agitation, hyperkinesia, nervousness, personality disorder, hostility, and depression).
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Day # 147: Bulimia Nervosa Part 2
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.
The TikTokification of Mental Health on Campus
Mad in America
JUNE 22, 2024
People have less faith in me than they usually do,” says one college sophomore about her experiences disclosing her borderline personality disorder (BPD) diagnosis. For some, disclosing a diagnosis still leads to the opposite reaction.
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Day # 148: Binge-Eating Disorder
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.
Day # 146: Bulimia Nervosa Part 1
Bullet Psych
AUGUST 15, 2022
There is also an association between mood disorders , impulsivity, personality disorders (most commonly borderline PD ), and anxiety disorders.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
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.
Brain Stew: An Interview with Myself
Mad in America
OCTOBER 11, 2024
They said I was ‘mentally ill, but not mentally ill enough to be psychotic’ and that I had personality disorders. In fact, a great deal of maneuvering went into excluding any mention of my psychiatric history except to say I was a drug addict and scammed people, playing crazy for sympathy. Not a word about the meds.
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DBT for Parents
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).
Your Daily Psych Curriculum Starts Here
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.
MPS Members Actively Taking New Patients: Appointments Within 1-2 Weeks
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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Leaving Biological Psychiatry Behind: An Interview With Rodrigo Nardi
Mad in America
MAY 15, 2024
Siem: That in itself—just informing your patient that what you’re writing down is a name for a cluster of symptoms rather than a diagnosis—is a radically different strategy than telling someone the meet the criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder or bipolar.
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The Top 5 Mental Health Blogs You Should Be Following
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.
Veterans & Substance Abuse
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.
Is Madness an Evolved Signal? Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction
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.
Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life
Mad in America
MARCH 2, 2024
They kept attributing my symptoms to a non-objectifiable personality disorder which, according to the DSM, does not have to be permanent and which had been in remission for 10 years. That such a specialist will then look for the reason why the symptoms deviate from the guideline and what can possibly be done about it?
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