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A recent study published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging sheds light on the neural differences related to identity instability traits in borderline personality disorder. By analyzing brain ...

They say the loudest cries for help are sometimes silent. Not everyone with emotional pain screams it out, and not every mental health struggle looks chaotic from the outside. Quiet Borderline ...

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 ...

For the first time since 2001, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has updated its clinical practice guideline on borderline personality disorder (BPD). The new guideline is “quite substantial ...

Raising children is no easy task, and parents are consistently more likely to report experiencing overwhelming stress compared to other adults. For some mothers, this stress is exacerbated by the ...

Although these conditions are alike in some ways, there are key differences between them. “Both can involve psychotic episodes, but in BPD, these are usually short and triggered by stress, while in ...