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The History of BPD
BPD, borderline personality disorder, has a sorted history at best. It was not an official diagnosable disorder until 1980 when it was included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III) for the first time. BPD had, of course, been around and affecting people long before 1980. Here is a rough…
Read MoreBPD Medication: What Medications Are Available for Treating BPD?
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental health disorder that affects mood, emotions, and the ability to sustain relationships. Researchers believe that brain chemistry is likely affected in those suffering from BPD, with certain areas being more active and others being underdeveloped. So what BPD medications are available for treating borderline personality disorder? Most medications for…
Read MoreHow to Manage Adolescent BPD?
Borderline personality disorder, commonly known as BPD, can seem like a scary diagnosis in a teenager. While BPD is usually not diagnosed until early adulthood, if symptoms are reoccurring in a pervasive pattern for over a year, adolescents can be diagnosed earlier. Contrary to popular belief, BPD is not a life sentence, and symptoms usually…
Read MoreHow Is BPD Diagnosed?
Originally considered borderline to other mental disorders or atypical due to the brief psychotic episodes that sometimes occur with it, borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a misleading term that as of now has yet to be redefined. Though it is actually a separate disorder with its own set of symptoms and indicators, BPD can be…
Read MoreAt What Age Can BPD Be Diagnosed?
Unstable personal relationships, intense moods, and impulsive and risky behavior are core symptoms of the mental disorder BPD, or borderline personality disorder. According to Psych Central, BPD affects between 1.6 and 5.9 percent of the general population and may be more common than the more widely recognized disorder, schizophrenia. BPD is typically diagnosed in early…
Read MoreDiscouraged Borderline Personality Disorder
If you have come to understand borderline personality disorder (BPD) through personal experience with an individual suffering from the disorder or your own struggle with it, the road has most certainly been a rocky one for you. For people with BPD, life is a bit like riding a rollercoaster with a blindfold on – not…
Read MoreAvoidant Personality Disorder as a Cause for Failure to Launch Syndrome
Avoidant personality disorder (APD) is classified by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as showing obvious avoidance of relationships and interactions with other people due to an extreme fear of being rejected. It is often accompanied by feelings of inferiority, low self-esteem, and feeling like they cannot trust others, per the Encyclopedia of…
Read MoreShould You Let Your Adult Son or Daughter Move Back Home?
Currently, nearly 14 million young adults are still living at home with their parents, according to Dr. Phil. Determining whether or not you want to be — or should be — part of that statistic is tricky, and if you aren’t careful, feelings can be hurt. More often than not, the reasons a grown child…
Read MoreThe Reasons Why More Young Adults Are living With Their Parents
While it is the opinion of many — mostly from older generations — that today’s youth are lazy and unappreciative of their parents’ generosity, failure to launch syndrome is a real problem that needs to be treated as such. The Greater Good at the University of California, Berkeley states that those born after 1978 are…
Read MoreConnection Between an Enabling Parent and a Child’s Failure to Launch
According to the Pew Research Center, 15.8 percent of young adults ages 25 to 34 were living with their parents in 2000; a decade later, that figure jumped to 21.6 percent. Nonetheless, failure to launch syndrome still isn’t widely understood or accepted among society. Many still view the condition as an excuse for young adults…
Read MoreWhat Are the Signs and Symptoms of Failure to Launch Syndrome?
Failure to launch syndrome may very well be present in the vast majority of the 36 percent of young adults ages 18 to 31 who are still living with their parents, per the Huffington Post. The 48 percent of 18-to-29-year-old individuals living with their parents in Europe proves that this is not strictly an American…
Read MoreHow to Treat Failure to Launch Syndrome
Currently, 36 percent of all young adults ages 18 to 31 are living with their parents, either having moved back or never having left in the first place, according to Pew Research. A recent Gallup poll touts that of this number, 12 percent are married couples live with the parents of one of the spouses…
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