BPD Planet

Get tips to help and understand your friend who is using self-injury as a coping mechanism.

Amanda Wang of RethinkBPD, a support group for Borderline Personality Disorder shares her life story at the National Institute of Mental Health

Currently I struggle with my past. I attend therapy on a daily basis and take many medications. I struggle from PTSD and BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder), all of which is said to have come from my childhood abuse, specially the sexual abuse. Plus other diagnoses such as Social Anxiety, Disassociation Disorder, Panic Attacks, & the fear & misunderstanding anything related to SEX!!!!!!

Tami Green answers the question of how most effectively to communicate with your loved one with BPD.

If you were to visit a doctor for a serious injury, and the extent of the treatment was analyzing why you had the accident, and reliving the play by play of your mistake, would you continue to pay substantial fees for their services for the next couple of years? Probably not, yet this is the accepted norm for mental health treatments.

It’s often said that your time spent at university will be the best of your life. Cheap booze, free love, getting up at two and staying out till four. Life doesn’t get any better than that right? Unfortunately, while some of the above may be true for some students some of the time, the truth [...]

While this isn’t a brand new book – it was published in November 2007,  Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents is an extemely helpful book for parents of children diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. According to its description, “Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents offers parents, caregivers, and adolescents themselves a complete understanding of this complex and tough-to-treat [...]