• A Brief History of Borderline Personality Disorder’s Name

    A Brief History of Borderline Personality Disorder’s Name

    This article was originally published on Psychreg. The term “borderline personality disorder” (BPD) is interesting in psych nomenclature. Usually, psychosocial illnesses are named after their most prominent symptoms. For example, bipolar disorder (formerly, manic depression) refers to the “two poles” of mania and depression. Many medical conditions have carried different labels throughout history; even now, […]

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  • Borderline Personality Disorder and the Church: Christians with BPD (In Their Words)

    Borderline Personality Disorder and the Church: Christians with BPD (In Their Words)

    Trigger Warning:  Christianity in a favorable light, struggles with belief in God, fitting in at church, splitting, BPD symptoms. Read at your own discretion. You can’t understand me without understanding borderline personality disorder. I’m still wrestling with feeling like I don’t fit in and that I’m misunderstood. I don’t know anyone who can relate to […]

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  • An Overview of Avoidant Personality Disorder

    An Overview of Avoidant Personality Disorder

    If you’re a reader of BPD Beautiful, you most probably either have borderline personality disorder (BPD) or know somebody close to you who has it. Or perhaps you’re just interested in the topic of personality disorders and want to know more. BPD is one of the best-known of these conditions. Much research in the personality […]

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  • Books About BPD: “Book of Thoughts” by Adrianna Rangel (Q+A)

    Books About BPD: “Book of Thoughts” by Adrianna Rangel (Q+A)

    Trigger Warning: BPD stigma, stigma by mental health clinicians Are you looking for books about BPD? Check out Adrianna Rangel’s latest book – Book of Thoughts. Living with BPD Stigma Here’s the real truth about living with borderline personality disorder: you are going to be stigmatized. By people online. By film or TV producers. By mental […]

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