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 ...

Histrionic and borderline personality disorders often feature overlapping symptom themes. As personality disorders belonging to the same group classification, they can both involve intense, emotional, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can take a toll on relationships, many couples sustain healthy partnerships. Here’s how. Borderline personality disorder is a mental health condition ...