Borderline Personality Disorder
May is BPD awareness month!
May is Borderline Personality Disorder awareness month. In an effort to do our part in helping spread awareness about BPD we decided to share different videos and articles from around the internet here on our blog. If you’ve found an article, forum, video or anything that you feel would be valuable to share with the…
Read MoreOvercoming Borderline Personality Disorder in Young Adults: It’s Possible!
If your child is a young adult with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you deeply understand the struggles of intense mood swings, the inability to regulate emotions and the wild, impulsive behavior sometimes leading to self-harm or harm to others. Young adults aged 17 to 28 with BPD often struggle with relationships and other areas of…
Read MoreStacy Pershall: BPD and Functional Improvement Luncheon at OPI
We were so fortunate to have Stacy Pershall, author and Active Minds speaker, visit us again a couple of weeks ago. Stacy shared a short version of her powerful story and offered insight to our team about her struggle with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), a fight she is winning with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). She…
Read MoreHow BPD Can Cause Failure To Launch In Young Adults
Failure to Launch (FTL) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can, in many ways, be intertwined. The question of BPD contributing to FTL has come up many times for me in the past several weeks in my role as an admissions counselor at OPI Intensive, a residential transitional living program in Southern California exclusively for young…
Read MoreThe Parents’ Guide to Beating BPD
“I just felt like giving up. I felt like she hated me one day and loved me without limits the next,” Kaylen C. accounts about her youngest daughter. Kaylen’s daughter had been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) on her nineteenth birthday. For families dealing with a BPD diagnosis, this feeling is all too familiar.…
Read MoreStacy Pershall on BPD and Suicidality (at OPI Intensive)
It can be difficult at times for clients to feel that the staff working with them truly understand their struggles. How could we know what they are experiencing? How could we understand what it’s like to deal with Borderline Personality Disorder, anxiety, depression, or know the feeling of being in residential treatment? We as staff…
Read MoreSelf-Soothing Techniques for Young Adults With BPD
Self-soothing is one of the DBT Distress Tolerance Skills that are taught to folks suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Many with this disorder were never taught how to self-soothe, essentially how to make themselves feel better or comforted when emotionally distressed. Doing something as simple as smelling a flower was never correlated with feeling…
Read MoreBorderline Personality Disorder in College
Being a college student can be both fun and challenging; however, for a college student with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), the goal of obtaining a college degree can seem downright impossible. For a student with BPD, successfully getting from point A (the beginning of the semester) to point B (completion of the semester), can be very…
Read MoreOvercoming Failure to Launch: Creating Space for Dialogue within the Extremes of Idealization and Devaluation in Borderline Personality Disorder
Individuals diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder often have a characteristic pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships. They may idealize therapists, caregivers, friends, or lovers during the first initial period together. They may then demand to spend an exorbitant amount of time together and share the most intimate and personal details early on in their…
Read MoreAnxiety and Failure to Launch Syndrome in Borderline Personality Disorder
Originally thought to be at the “borderline” between psychosis and neurosis, people with Borderline Personality Disorder suffer from a disorder of emotion regulation. A person with BPD may experience intense bouts of anger, depression, and anxiety that may last only hours, or at most a day. These may be associated with episodes of impulsive aggression…
Read MoreBorderline Personality Disorder and Failure to Launch Issues
Are you a young adult who has received a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder? BPD may have affected your ability to jump-start new relationships, your career, and may be holding you back from living the life of your dreams. Learn more about Failure to Launch Syndrome, Borderline Personality Disorder, and how OPI Intensive can offer…
Read MoreBPD: Overcoming the Constant Crisis
Borderline Personality Disorder is an intense condition. Reflecting back upon the early days of my suffering from BPD, particularly before I was properly diagnosed but definitely suffering, this fact is quite evident. It seemed that I was almost always in crisis. Sure, there were those periods of time when things were going smoothly, and I…
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