BPD Planet

Christopher Reist, an academic psychiatrist and co-author of Psychiatry, gives his advice on bipolar disorder including: the difference between major depression and bipolar disorder, is there anything you can do to avoid developing bipolar disorder, the different kinds of bipolar disorder, the symptoms of bipolar disorder, the most common causes of bipolar disorder, common dangers associated with bipolar disorder, and more…

Borderline personality disorder is one of the most challenging conditions to treat, Dr. Charles Nemeroff notes in his latest videoblog. What does imaging tell us about its neurologic underpinnings?

A reading from I Hate You Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality Disorder, by Jerold J. Kriesman, M.D. and Hal Straus.

Erik shares his experience living with Borderline Personality Disorder.

This young woman has Borderline Personality Disorder, among other illnesses

Self-harm is the act of harming yourself through cutting or burning and sometimes through self starvation. It is an undesirable effort to cope with emotional problems such as frustration and anger. Many people think that it is an attempt at suicide but this is not the case. Nor is it connected to any cultural ritual. [...]