Research shows us that 70% of people with Borderline Personality Disorder drop out of treatment. According to John Gunderson, medical director of the Center for
Receiving a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) may seem devastating. There’s a lot of confusion about what BPD really means and how it’s
None of us enjoys feeling negative emotions. By definition, it is an aversive experience, and given the option, all of us would generally prefer to
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) and bipolar spectrum disorders (e.g., bipolar I, bipolar II, cyclothymia) have both been fairly common topics on PBB. Both disorders are
The other week I came across an interesting study by Cathy Spatz Widom (whose work has helped debunk the myth that being a victim of
Earlier this morning, I went to the dentist to get my teeth cleaned. Ordinarily, this is a fairly aversive experience, but this morning I barely
The other week I was listening to an episode of “Science Friday” on NPR, which featured Richard McFall, Bruce Wampold, and Dianne Chambless discussing the
Doctors used to have poetic names for diseases. A physician would speak of consumption because the illness seemed to eat you from within. Now
In a game of give and get, the brains of people with borderline personality disorder often don’t get it. In fact, an interactive economic game
“To be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle