Petulant borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a potential subtype of BPD. It involves mood changes and irritability. There is debate over subtypes of BPD. Petulant BPD is one of the four subtypes ...

Diagnosing personality disorders in children is controversial due to natural developmental shifts in mood and behavior. When maladaptive traits remain pervasive and persistent, however, a personality ...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a condition characterized by a pattern of maladaptive behavior, thoughts, and emotions. People with BPD often feel like they're on the edge of something, as if ...

People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are often preoccupied with fears of real or imagined abandonment, display wide mood swings, and experience sudden and intense anger, as described in ...

If the post-holidays are bad for a lot of us, to those phoning Valerie Porr’s Soho loft—which serves as ground zero for a major national hotline and referral service for sufferers of borderline ...

The cover story of Psychology Today this month, “Diagnosed In Adulthood,” made me think back to the timing of my own diagnoses. They all came in adulthood, in my late twenties: anorexia, major ...