Borderline Personality Disorder
Working With Families & Young Adults With Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) – Part II
The Strategy of Compromise: Achieving the Most Favorable Outcome for Young Adults with BPD and their Families Why is it more difficult for young adults with Borderline Personality Traits or Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) to compromise and make decisions? There are many factors that may help explain it. Extreme Sensitivity Many believe that the nervous…
Read MoreWorking With Families & Young Adults With Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) – Part I
Compromise, The Middle Path And Psychotherapy How the MIDDLE PATH approach can assist with the treatment of those young adults with emotional dysregulation and their families. In a recent article in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Anthony Bateman found that well-structured general psychiatric management was as effective as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) on all…
Read MoreMale BPD: Finally, We Are Addressing It
The challenge in life for all of us is to appreciate that happiness is found in imperfection, not perfection. For young adults in our Optimum Performance Institute community, this means learning to appreciate the complexity of life and deal with imperfections in themselves, others and the world. Our participants learn to take their best shot…
Read MoreBPD Treatment for Men
OPI Intensive is one of the few residential programs in the world specializing in the treatment of young adult men ages 17-28 with Borderline Traits, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and co-occurring conditions. Today, experts are finding that borderline personality disorder (BPD) is an under-diagnosed disorder within the male population. Historically, BPD has been diagnosed three…
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OPI Intensive is an integrated component of the Optimum Performance Institute (OPI). Phase I: Stabilization The first goal of OPI Intensive is to help participants learn to regulate their emotions in real life situations. This is accomplished within our environment by utilizing comprehensive DBT and a proven array of Mindfulness Techniques which together become part of one’s…
Read MoreThe Difference Between a Mood Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder
Often, I’m asked about what the difference is between a Mood Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder. Part of the difficulty is our present diagnostic system: So many symptoms and observable behaviors are shared by different disorders that at times it’s extremely difficult to distinguish between them. To make things even more complicated, there is a…
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