Posts Tagged ‘BPD’
Bipolar and BPD Intervention: Beyond Diagnosis to The Whole Person
Dear Dr. Bob, My daughter is now in her early twenties. Since adolescence, she struggled with shifts in moods, problems in school (she’s incredibly bright but had a hard time following through), and she tends to isolate herself, which contributes to her depression and low self-esteem. She’s been diagnosed as bipolar and is on…
Read MoreHelp for Men with Borderline Personality Disorder
Dr. Robert Fischer, executive director of the Optimum Performance Institute and its OPI Intensive, was interviewed by Richard Zwolinski, LMHC, CASAC, and C.R. Zwolinski, Authors of the 2009 Bestseller Therapy Revolution: Find Help, Get Better, and Move On without Wasting Time or Money and the Therapy Soup blog at PsychCentral.com. The original interview appeared on PsychCentral.com.…
Read MoreMen Can Have Borderline Personality Disorder Too
Dr. Robert Fischer, executive director of the Optimum Performance Institute and its OPI Intensive, was interviewed by Richard Zwolinski, LMHC, CASAC, and C.R. Zwolinski, Authors of the 2009 Bestseller Therapy Revolution: Find Help, Get Better, and Move On without Wasting Time or Money and the Therapy Soup blog at PsychCentral.com. The original interview appeared on PsychCentral.com.…
Read MoreBPD in Men: We Can Have Borderline Personality Disorder, Too
Dr. Robert Fischer, executive director of the Optimum Performance Institute and its OPI Intensive, was interviewed by Richard Zwolinski, LMHC, CASAC, and C.R. Zwolinski, Authors of the 2009 Bestseller Therapy Revolution: Find Help, Get Better, and Move On without Wasting Time or Money and the Therapy Soup blog at PsychCentral.com. The original interview appeared on PsychCentral.com. Borderline…
Read MoreUse Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) FAST Skills to Balance Keeping Relationships with Keeping Respect for Yourself
This post is the third of a three-part series about Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills, adapted from Marsha M. Linehan’s book, Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder (1993, The Guilford Press, New York, NY). In this three part series, we have looked at DEARMAN skills, the DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness acronym for Objectives Effectiveness, or getting…
Read MoreBPD and PTSD: How common is the overlap?
How common is it to have a diagnosis of both Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? This is a key question currently being considered in the mental health community. Studies show anywhere from 26% – 57% of comorbidity of these two disorders. “These findings further suggest that this particular personality disorder…
Read MoreUse Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) GIVE Skills to Get and Keep Important Relationships
This post is the second of a three-part series about Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills, adapted from Marsha M. Linehan’s book, Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder (1993, The Guilford Press, New York, NY). A few weeks ago in anticipation of the holiday season, we took a closer look at DEARMAN skills . DEARMAN is…
Read MoreBring DBT DEAR MAN Skills Home for the Holidays
This post is the first of a three-part series about DEAR Skills, adapted from Marsha M. Linehan’s book, Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder (1993, The Guilford Press, New York, NY). The holidays can present challenges to anyone, but for OPI Living and OPI Intensive participants who have been diagnosed with Borderline Personality…
Read MoreLaunch of Borderline Personality Disorder Magazine and Popularity of Healing from BPD Blog Indicate Demand for More Info on BPD
The launch of the new magazine coincides with an increasing public awareness and desire to have more information available about Borderline Personality Disorder. The rapid growth of the HealingFromBPD.org blog site, managed by Debbie Corso and sponsored by the Optimum Performance Institute, confirms this trend. Woodland Hills, CA (PRWEB) November 14, 2013 “Men with Borderline…
Read MoreSkillful Job Search Part 4 – Confidence Through Volunteering
This is the last of four posts discussing our approach to helping OPI Living and OPI Intensive participants with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) find and keep a job. Read Part 3 – DEAR Skills on the Job. If obtaining and maintaining part-time work is too overwhelming, the Department of Volunteer & Career Services suggests that…
Read MoreSkillful Job Search Part 3 – DEAR Skills on the Job
This is the third of four posts discussing our approach to helping OPI Living and OPI Intensive participants with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) find and keep a job. Read Part 2 – Integrating DBT Skills . In the Department of Volunteer & Career Services at the Optimum Performance Institute, we have found that participants who…
Read MoreSkillful Job Search Part 2: Integrating DBT Skills
This is the second of four posts discussing our approach to helping OPI Living and OPI Intensive participants with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) find and keep a job. Read Part 1 – Obtaining a Job with BPD . The first thing we do to help participants tackle the job search process is to create a…
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