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 ...

What is histrionic personality disorder? Histrionic personality disorder (HPD) is a mental health condition that involves an intense, ongoing need to be noticed by others. 1 People with HPD often ...

"How can someone just decide you have a condition and then treat you as if you do?" she writes in a Reddit post Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for ...

Medically reviewed by Michael MacIntyre, MD Substance use disorder (SUD) is a medical condition that affects the brain and behavior, making it difficult for a person to control their use of substances ...

Abstract: We examined childhood predictors of Borderline Personality Disorder in a longitudinal community sample (see Klein & Finsaas, 2017, n=609). Youths were assessed triennially from ages 3 to 18, ...

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.

Last week, Australian Open player Destanee Aiava revealed she had struggled with borderline personality disorder. The tennis ...

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a challenging mental health condition that is characterized by a collection of symptoms, including emotional dysregulation, fear of abandonment, self-harm, ...

Summary: Loneliness plays a central role in borderline personality disorder (BPD) and often persists even when clinical symptoms subside. Current treatments, such as dialectical behavior therapy, fail ...