BPD Planet

Amanda Wang, producer of RethinkBPD, recounts her struggle, setbacks and breakthrough living with mental illness and Borderline Personality Disorder.

Anxiety disorders are affecting children at an alarming rate. Most experts believe that can be attributed to the stresses of modern society. It’s always been there and is just now being recognized. So, how can you tell if your child is suf­fer­ing from Child­hood Anx­i­ety Dis­or­der?

A new re­search study has proven what has long been sus­pect­ed. Bipo­lar dis­or­der is a ge­net­ic dis­ease and the genes in­volved are the ANK3 and CCAC­NA1C genes.

Short­er days, with more hours of dark­ness, the cold­er weath­er, which usu­al­ly means for most peo­ple be­ing in­doors more of­ten pro­mote de­pres­sion. The re­duced amount of nat­u­ral sun­light is al­so an­oth­er fac­tor in Sea­son­al Af­fec­tive Dis­or­der, ac­cord­ing to some re­search that has been done.

A.J. Mahari talks about punishment and revenge in BPD for those with BPD and their loved ones. Mahari, who recovered from BPD herself 14 years ago, shares her own mastering of her previously unmastered talionic impulse when she had BPD.

If you are suffering from BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) and have a committed partner who is willing to work with you “Closeness” therapy looks promising.

Sci­ence Alert re­ports a study from the Uni­ver­si­ty Of New South Wales and St. Vin­cent’s Hos­pi­tal that ar­gue that on­line treat­ments are as ef­fec­tive as tra­di­tion­al face to face treat­ment for a va­ri­ety of men­tal health con­di­tions.