INTRODUCTION Borderline personality disorder is a chronic mental disorder associated with severe psychosocial impairment and morbidity, greater usage of mental health resources, and a high mortality rate. Although there is no drug with an approved indication for this disorder, pharmacological treatment is a common practice based on the specific benefit of the drugs on the remission of the core ...

BACKGROUND Fundamental problems with Personality Disorders (PD) diagnostic system in the previous version of DSM, led to the revision of DSM. Therefore, a multidimensional system has been proposed for diagnosis of personality disorder features in DSM-5. In the dimensional approach of DSM-5, personality disorders diagnosis is based on levels of personality functioning (Criteria A) and personalit...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To establish whether mental health nurses responses to people with borderline personality disorder are problematic and, if so, to inform solutions to support change. BACKGROUND There is some evidence that people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder are unpopular among mental health nurses who respond to them in ways which could be counter-therapeutic. Interventio...

objectives: evidences obtained from different studies shows that emotional dysregulation is the basic cause of searching mental services in people with borderline personality disorder (bpd). thus, this study was conducted to identify and compare the ability of emotional recognition (positive and negative) in people with bpd and the normal ones. methods: the research design was retrospective- de...

Consistent with the "scar hypothesis", according to which mood depression might impact personality, we examined the effect of unipolar and hypomanic mood disturbances on cluster B (i.e., narcissistic, histrionic, and borderline) personality disorder features. Data from 113 suicidal young adults were utilized, and cross-lagged associations between unipolar and hypomanic mood disturbances and clu...

(2002). Co-occurrence of DSM-IV personality disorders with borderline personality disorder.

OBJECTIVES To correlate personality structure and clinical severity of borderline personality disorder. METHODS Based on data from a sample of 104 female patients with borderline personality disorder, we computed bivariate correlations and group comparisons using the scales from the Structured Interview of Personality Organization (STIPO) as well as indicators of clinical severity of the diso...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare the axis II comorbidity of 202 patients whose borderline personality disorder (BPD) remitted over 6 years of prospective follow-up to that of 88 whose BPD never remitted. METHOD The axis II comorbidity of 290 patients meeting both DIB-R and DSM-III-R criteria for BPD was assessed at baseline using a semistructured interview of demonstrated re...