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Borderline personality disorder (aka BPD) is a serious mental health condition, but it's also one of the most misunderstood.
Mental health disorders come in many forms and affect thoughts, emotions and behaviors in complex ways. Conditions like anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder are among the most frequently diagnosed ...
A classic communication theory, the double bind, may offer a unifying explanation for the paradoxes at the core of borderline ...
An expert perspective — grounded in clinical knowledge and lived experience with bipolar — clears up the confusion. Trigger warning: this article contains a clinical discussion of suicide, which may ...
Perfectionism by itself isn’t a diagnostic category. It’s associated with various mental health diagnoses. In particular, it’s often linked with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). BPD is marked by ...