These two disorders share many features, making proper diagnosis a challenge. Treatment providers must be aware that some ...

In addition to often being referred to by the same acronym (BPD), bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder share other superficial similarities that make it easy to confuse the two.

Many children and adolescents diagnosed with bipolar disorder later in life are discovered to have had disturbed interpersonal relationships consistent with borderline personality. The theory that ...

BPD is a disorder of mood and how a person interacts with others. It is the most commonly recognised personality disorder.

most adolescents with bipolar disorder also have features of BPD. Impulsive and frequently self-destructive acts of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) can pose a tremendous ...

Bipolar disorder is a complex mental health condition characterized by extreme mood swings, ranging from manic highs to ...

Treatment should focus on the underlying causes of borderline personality disorder – trauma – rather stigmatise the person.

People with Borderline Personality Disorder are 13 times more likely to report childhood trauma than people without any mental health problems, according to University of Manchester research. The ...

Borderline personality disorder can fluctuate in intensity and mimic other conditions such as major depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders and psychosis. Estimates suggest 26% of ...

A new study published in The Primary Care Companion For CNS Disorders by Flinders University has uncovered links between a patient's initial diagnosis of borderline personality disorder ...