Sort by: Most Relevant Publish Date

PERSONALITY DISORDER  

For women who suffer from PTSD, there is an increased risk, with age, the mental health complication will transform into a Borderline Personality disorder.

For teenagers who suffer from mental illness, the complications of Borderline Personality disorder are often mistaken for major depression or Conduct disorder.

Psychic vampires feed off of others energy and emotions. Borderline personality disorder sufferers are prevalent among energy vampires because of the behaviors exhibited that characterize this mental illness.

The treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is complex and varies from one individual to the next and comes with its own set of difficulties. Read this article to see how psychotherapy can help those with BPD.

A brief look at the symptoms and characteristics of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Think you know someone with BPD? Review this article to see if their characteristics match a diagnosis of BPD.

While the lifestyle of someone with obsessive compulsive personality disorder can seem inflexible and difficult to manage, there are some career paths that can accommodate this personality style. Here are seven of the best career choices for someone with OCPD.

For women who suffer from borderline personality disorder, there is an increased risk for suicidal tendencies. To offset this risk, dialectical behavior therapy can be effective

An overview of (Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), one of today's biggest tragedies in mental illness.

Borderline Personality Disorder, left untreated, can destroy relationships and lives. What do you do when your mother exhibits the symptoms?

Find out if your difficult Ex has Borderline Personality Disorder. Get tips on how to handle a Borderline Ex especially if they threaten your new blended family.

Fear of abandonment, real or imagined, causes real conflict for those who have Borderline Personality Disorder.

Schizoid personality disorder is often confused with a similar condition, Avoidant Personality Disorder. As the symptoms are virtually identical, the distinction may be hard for a therapist to differentiate between them.

People with Avoidant Personality Disorder/Social Anxiety Disorder often want to be liked but fear of rejection and behaviors that often lead to rejection cause them to end up in social isolation.

Schizotypal personality disorder does not generally receive as much as attention as many of the other personality disorders, but it is not unlikely that you or someone you love may be suffering from this disorder.

My journey through Borderline Personality Disorder, how it has affected my life and how I have learned to cope and change.

For individuals who experience a traumatic event, self-esteem and confidence are often affected leading to the development of Avoidant personality disorder.

Summary of the symptoms, treatments, and common outcomes of avoidant personality disorder.

This article relates the effects of Borderline Personality Disorder on the patient and their family and it hopes to help other families faced with this disorder.

Histrionic Personality Disorder is in a group of conditions that are called dramatic personality disorders. It begins in early adulthood and may present itself in many different ways. The word histrionic means "dramatic or theatrical".

There are certain people who, no matter how hard they try, cannot live alone. Dependent Personality Disorder cause these people to show a needy, passive and clinging behavior and an excessive fear of separation.

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) is often confused with another, more well-known disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). These are completely different disorders. In this article, I will describe this personality disorder that is so misunderstood.

There are many misconceptions concerning antisocial personality disorder that have been circulating amongst not only laypeople, but professionals as well.

About two percent of the population of the United States suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Despite the significant presence of BPD, very little is known about it. This article discusses some of the symptoms of BPD and the silence surrounding its diagnosis.

Multiple personality disorder or MPD is a mental condition when the personality becomes fragmented into two or more distinct identities, each of which may become dominant and control behavior from time to time to the exclusion of the others

Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a true mental diagnosis for people who need admiration, lack empathy and have a grandiose sense of their self-importance.

I believe that most of us have a type of Multiple Personality Disorder. If this is true, how can we consciously choose to use this gift to our advantage?

BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) affects many people. Here's another perspective.

If you or someone you love has Borderline Personality Disorder, there is now hope where you thought there was none. Go buy or borrow Marsha Linehan books, particularly the ones that focus on the latest BPD treatment, Dialectical Behavior Therapy Training

Narcissitic Personality Disorder is the most intriguing and makes the most sense of the theories presented. This condition resonates with me because

Being married to a spouse that suffers with borderline personality disorder will bring many ups and downs to throughout your relationship. It becomes important that you learn to separate the illness from the person and always work on your own selfworth.

Borderline Personality Disorder can be debilitating, one theory is those born with it react more intensely to lower levels of stress than others.BPD affects the limbic system of the brain the area that controls emotions.

One who suffers with Narcissistic Personality Disorder has a need to control everyone and thing around him. Those who are closest to him will be ridculed and coerced in to catering to his every need or suffer the consequence of contempt.

An overview of Avoidant Personality Disorder and Social Phobia. Their similarities are presented, as well as various cognitive theories.

Taking a look at some common personality disorders that have a tremendous effect on relationships.

I personally had never heard of this one before starting my research, but soon realized I know people that in some form or another definitely have this particular disorder.

The fundamental characteristic of the Immature Personality is infantilism, which is when the psychological age of the individual is notably less than the chronological one.

The cause is unknown. Personality Disorders are long-term behavioral patterns that cause problems in an individual's work and interpersonal relationships.

While it may seem as though the schizoid and the paranoid personality are very similar, this similarity is typically relegated to outward appearances.

Just a short article on Herschel Walker's Confession of having multiple personalities.

Herschel Walker is a football player who blazed the American scene during the 80's. However, he was hiding a secret. He was suffering from an illness that even many people close to him didn't know about.

If you met a vampire on the street, would you know?

As distinct from healthy narcissism which we all possess, pathological narcissism is maladaptive, rigid, persisting, and causes significant distress, and functional impairment.

"It's like being the mime in the box. Not just playing him but being him. There will always be this invisible barrier between me and everyone else."

Ever been around someone who is just so into themselves that nothing else around them matters?

Many people are around those with DID and don't even know it.

The characters of Deacon and Steward Morgan in Toni Morrison's Paradise, upon first glance at the novel, are twins in the small town of Ruby, Oklahoma. In fact, Steward Morgan is not real at all, but lives in the mind of Steward Morgan.

You think you are in love. And you may well be. As the relationship progresses it becomes apparently clear to you that, unfortunately, the one you love is not reciprocating those feelings toward you. Your partner is, in fact, in love...only it's with themselves.

For the sufferers of DID, many can relate specific childhood symptoms that were indicators of the disorder development.

People with MPD or Dissociative Identity Disorder tend to switch from one personality to another when confronted with different people and situations. It can be treated successfully.