Borderline Personality News

September 5, 2008

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Skills-based therapy may curb eating disorders
Reuters via Yahoo! News
Women who suffer from bulimia or binge-eating disorder and who have borderline personality may be helped with "dialectical behavior therapy," results of a pilot study suggest.

Local Stories Too pained to live It took more than a decade for Dan Brocchini just to get a diagnosis of his mental ...
Chico News & Review
By the time someone diagnosed Daniel Brocchini's mental illness as borderline personality disorder, he'd been suffering for more than a decade. Unfortunately, the diagnosis,...

Samurai sword boy had 'satanic ghost' vision
Cape Argus
The door into the mind of alleged samurai sword killer Morne Harmse has opened. Behind it lie depression, a possible personality disorder, and his visions of a ghost summoning him to become a Satanist.

Disorder hurts others as well as sufferer
The Columbus Dispatch
Recently, I wrote about borderline personality disorder and outlined the symptoms. Many readers requested more information.

Borderline Personality Disorder: No Man Is an Island
Scientific American
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is one of the most damaging mental illnesses. By itself, this severe mental illness accounts for up to 10 percent of patients in psychiatric care and 20 percent of those who have to be hospitalized. The defining characteristic of BPD is a pervasive instability in the patient's life, especially when it comes to interpersonal relationships. BPD patients also ...

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