The 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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OPI Therapist to Get DBT Certification

WOODLAND HILLS, CA—- Dialectical Behavior Therapy is one of many therapeutic services offered at The Optimum Performance Institute and now OPI is expanding this focus. Misty Furbush, MFT, OPI therapist, will attend specialized training for DBT certification to enable her to train other OPI therapists in this technique. DBT is a research-supported treatment which combines…

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