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About Borderline Personality Disorder

• BPD Info Table of Contents
• Definitions & Overview
  • DSM Criteria
  • A Possible New Name for the Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Dr. Heller Discusses Borderline Personality Disorders
  • Medline Research on the Borderline Personality Disorder
• Diagnosis
  • Example of Dr. Heller's office notes when assessing and treating and individual with BPD
  • Common Conditions Coexisting with the BPD
  • Dr. Heller's Dysphoria Instruction Sheet
  • Studies Showing Abnormal EEG's in Patients with the BPD
  • Screening Test
• Children
  • BPD in Children
• Medications
  • Studies in the Medical Literature Showing Effectiveness of Medications in Treating the BPD
  • A Comparison of Fluoxetine (Prozac) and Sertraline (Zoloft) in Treating Four Target Symptoms of the Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Why do some say: "Tegretol is out of favor?"
  • Is There One Borderline Drug?
  • Use of Effexor in the BPD - A New Idea
  • Zyprexa and Weight Gain
  • Use of Depakote and Tegretol Together
• Treatment
  • How I Treat the BPD and Why
  • The BPD New Management Concepts: New Management Concepts (for Primary Care Physicians)
  • Medical Treatment of the Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Update (Jan, 1999) for Previous Primary Care Physician Article
  • Retraining Your Brain

FAQ's Responses to questions asked to Dr. Heller about BPD and other mental issues:

• FAQ's Table of Contents
• Diagnosis and General Information
  • What is the BPD?
  • I Was Just Diagnosed With BPD - What Is It?
  • Why is it Called the Borderline Disorder?
  • How Is the BPD Diagnosed and Can It Be Diagnosed in Children?
  • What's the Difference Between Bipolar and the BPD?
  • Are These Diagnoses Permanent?
  • Does My Father Have BPD?
  • Is My Mother Mentally Ill?
  • Can You Answer BPD Questions About A Young Friend?
  • Do I Have A Medical BPD Or A Psychological BPD?
  • How Do I Discuss My BPD Diagnosis With My Psychiatrist?
  • Isn't BPD Just A Misogynist Label For PTSD?
  • Is the BPD a Character Disorder?
  • Self-Mutilation for No Reason
  • I Meet BPD Criteria
  • BPD Diagnosis Never Explained to Me
  • Do I Fit the BPD Criteria?
  • Are There Lesser Degrees of BPD Severity?
  • Could I Have BPD?
  • Is BPD a Permanent Condition?
  • Temporal Lobe Abnormalities, Could I Be BPD?
  • What Does The BPD Mean And Is It Serious?
• Misdiagnosis?
  • Is BPD Misdiagnosed With Other Illnesses?
  • Could My Bipolar Son Be BPD?
  • Do I Have BPD or ADHD?
  • Am I A Borderline Or A Narcissist?
  • Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, Could It Be BPD?
  • I'm Not Sure if I'm Truly a BPD Sufferer
  • Should I Trust My Doctor's Comments and Diagnosis?
  • BPD Symptoms with Different Diagnoses
  • Tremendous Anxiety
• Symptoms / Behaviors
  • BPD Symptoms and Diagnosis
  • Is Perceptual Distortion Part Of The BPD?
  • Do Borderlines Always Have All the Symptoms?
  • Can You Stop My Grief, And Is It "Complex PTSD"?
  • What Causes BPD Mood Swings?
  • Mood Swings, The Moon and BPD
  • Need Information About Sound Processing Problems In BPD
  • BPD and Anger, How To Help
  • Inappropriate Anger
  • What Can Stop My Rage?
  • Is Jealousy a Part of the BPD?
  • BPD and Humming
  • BPD and Lying
  • Pathological Lying
  • Are There Physical Signs Someone Is Lying?
  • Lying, Cheating, Part of BPD?
  • Son Is Pathological Liar
  • Compulsively Lying
  • Are Borderline Pathological Liars?
  • What Can Be Done for Pathological Liars?
  • BPD and Self-Destructive Behaviors
  • Why Are Borderlines Self-Destructive?
  • Can Self-Inflicted Violence Turn Outwards?
  • BPD and False Accusations
  • Pseudo-seizures (No-BPD)
  • BPD and Infatuation with my Therapist
  • BPD and Transference
  • Sexually Involved With Therapist
• Genetics / Causes
  • Is It Genetic?
  • Is BPD a Heritable Disease?
  • How Much of the BPD Is Genetic?
  • Shouldn't My Parents Take Medicine Instead of Me?
  • Is It My Fault?
  • Is Having the BPD My Fault?
  • Can Genetic Epilepsy Increase the Risk of BPD?
  • Can a Childhood Head Injury Cause the BPD?
  • Stormy Childhood, High IQ, Could He Be BPD?
  • Can Frontal Lobe Trauma Cause the BPD?
  • Does ADHD Turn into BPD?
  • Is The BPD A Hormone Or Enzyme Defect?
  • Can An Adult Rape Cause The BPD?
  • Mercury Poisoning Causing Problems?
  • Snake Venom and Brain Damage
• Children / Teens
  • What Can I Do to Help My Child Who Has the BPD?
  • What Can I Do to Keep My Children from Getting the BPD?
  • Can Being Raised by a Parent with the BPD Cause Problems?
  • Does My 2-Year-Old Have BPD?
  • Could My Daughter Have Had BPD at Age 3?
  • Where Do I Go From Here With My Son?
  • What Can I Do To Lower My Child's Risk Of Developing BPD?
  • Self-Mutilating 4 yr. Old (No BPD)
  • Childhood BPD
  • BPD and Childhood
  • Help for a Child with BPD
  • Can BPD Be Diagnosed in Adolescence?
  • Telling Your Parents You Might Have the BPD
  • BPD Symptoms in 13 Year Old
  • BPD and Teen Unruly Behavior
  • BPD And Parenting
• People with BPD
  • How Can I Be Diagnosed With BPD At 52?
  • Do All Transsexuals Have BPD?
  • BPD and the Elderly
  • Is Menopause Making Her BPD Worse?
  • Can PMS Trigger BPD Episodes?
  • What About Pregnancy, Genetics and Getting Older?
  • BPD Medications, Street Drugs and Pregnancy
• Treatment
  • Who Can I See to Help Me with the BPD?
  • Drs. & Therapists Who Treat BPDs
  • Is Counseling Necessary?
  • What if I Can't Afford Counseling or Ziglar's Tapes?
  • Do Borderlines Respond To DBT?
  • Can Anything Work? I've Tried Everything
  • Are Shock Treatments Appropriate for the BPD?
  • Is There Ever a Case Where Psychotherapy is Better than Medications?
  • What Can Help My Son With Cyclothymia?
  • How Can I Help This BPD Patient?
  • Are There Tools To Predict BPD Decompensation?
  • Can You Completely Recover From The BPD?
  • What If My ADD and BPD Aren’t Treated?
  • BPD and Lost Hope
  • BPD and Dr. Linehan
  • Viewing Your Medical Charts
  • BPD and Electro Encephalogram
  • BPD and in Patient Care
  • BPD and Therapy
  • BPD Treatment
  • BPD and Psychiatric Institutions
  • Is It Me or Not the Right Therapy?
• Medication
  • What Medications Are Successful at Treating the BPD and What About Side-Effects?
  • BPD Medication is Invaluable
  • Do I Have to Take Pills?
  • Why Do Medications Only Work On Some Of The Symptoms?
  • Can Remeron Help with Sleep?
  • Do You Still Recommend Prozac and Tegretol and Are There Treatment Centers?
  • Is Taking My Daughter off Prozac a Good Idea?
  • The Prozac Helped, Now What?
  • What about Generic Haldol?
  • Can Beta Blockers Like Inderal Help with the BPD?
  • How Can I be Sure I Won't Get Serotonin Syndrome?
  • What About Trileptal?
  • Will Lexapro Make Me Better or Worse?
  • Are There Any Medications that will Work for Me?
  • Could Zoloft Make My Husband Snap?
  • How Common Are Sexual Problems with Prozac?
  • Why Do Some Antipsychotics Cause Weight Gain?
  • Is Trileptal And Celexa A Good Combination For BPD?
  • Why Am I On Naltrexone?
  • Is Seroquel a Good BPD Drug?
  • Can You Answer Some Questions About Lithium?
  • What If BuSpar Makes Me Worse?
  • Is All This Medicine Hurting My Liver?
  • Is Tegretol Making Me Ill?
  • Should A 22 Year Old Still Be Taking Ritalin?
  • Should I Quit Wellbutrin When I Take Prozac And Tegretol?
  • What Can Be Done About Prozac Eventually Causing Side Effects?
  • Can Zoloft Cause Anger?
  • What Are The Symptoms Of SSRI Withdrawal?
  • Phenobarbitol and Zoloft Mixed Together
  • Naltrexone and Self-mutilation (No-BPD)
  • Feeling Disconnected on Medication (No-BPD)
  • Can One Become Immune to Medication?
  • Prozac, Buspar, and Tegretol
  • Too Many Medications with Little Results
  • Medications Are Not Helping
  • BPD and Taking Medications
  • Trazodone Withdrawal in Order To Get Onto Prozac
  • Incompetent Doctors and Medications
  • Do You Have Any Medication Suggestion?
  • Neurontin, Prozac and Depakote
  • Elavil, Mellaril, and Xanax
  • Revia or Lamictal for BPD and Self-Injury?
  • Is My BPD Son Taking Too Many Medications
  • Am I a BPD Who Just Can't Take Antidepressants?
  • Is My Daughter On Enough Medication?
  • BPD and Xanax
  • BPD and Phenobarbitol
  • BPD and Medication Manerix
  • BPD and the Medication Lupron
  • BPD and Lamictil
  • BPD Medications and Hepatitis
  • BPD Medications and Weight Gain
  • BPD and Lithium
  • BPD and Serotonin Syndrome
  • BPD and Depakote
  • BPD and Generalized Anxiety Disorder Medications
  • BPD and Medication Side Effects
  • BPD and Low Dose Medications
  • BPD and Antipsychotics
• Alternative Treatment
  • Can Unconditional Love Cure BPD?
  • BPD and Herbs
  • Sexual Dysfunction and Ginkgo Biloba (No-BPD)
  • BPD and Alternative Care
  • BPD and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
  • Any Techniques for Crashing Less Often?
  • How Do I Tell Her and Can Prayer Help?
• Co-occurring Disorders
  • Is There Much Overlap With BPD, Asperger's And Seizures?
  • BPD and Asperger's Syndrome
  • BPD and Attention Deficit Disorder
  • ADD, Bipolar and BPD
  • Bipolar and BPD
  • How Do You Treat ADHD when the BPD or Bipolar Is Present?
  • How Do You Treat The Combination Of ADHD And BPD?
  • Can You Have Both ADD And BPD, And How Can I Prevent Drug Abuse?
  • BPD and Manic Depression
  • BPD, Bipolar and Multiple Diagnoses
  • Do BPD and Bipolar Overlap?
  • BPD and Cyclothymia
  • Can I Have both Bipolar and the BPD?
  • Can You Have Both Bipolar and the BPD?
  • Is there a Link Between BPD and Fibromyalgia?
  • Can The NPD With BPD Be Successfully Treated?
  • Is There A Relationship Between Tricotillomania And BPD?
  • BPD and Trichotillomania (Pulling Out Hair)
  • BPD and Fear of Pain
  • BPD and Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • BPD, GAD and Other Disorders
  • BPD and Dissociative Identity Disorder
  • Previously Diagnosed DID Now Considered BPD
  • BPD and Disassociate Identity Disorder
  • BPD, Stress and Depression
  • Could I Have OCPD, ADD and BPD and How Are They Treated?
  • Do You Have Any Information on BPD and Tourettes?
  • Depression and Possibly BPD?
  • BPD and Self-Mutilation
  • What Can Be Done For My Self-Mutilation And Suicide Attempts?
  • BPD, Epilepsy and Seizures?
  • BPD and Sex Addiction
  • Diagnosed with Several Mental Disorders
  • BPD and Barter's Syndrome
  • BPD and Diabetes
  • Multiple Diagnoses
  • Bipolar and Schizoaffective Disorder (No-BPD)
  • BPD and Gender Identity Problems
  • BPD and Multiple Disorders
  • BPD And Sexual Dysfunction
  • BPD with Schizoaffective Tendencies
  • Mixed Personality Disorder
  • Dysphoria and PMS
  • BPD, Depression, and the GAD
  • BPD and Multiple Sclerosis
  • BPD and Splitting
  • BPD and Mental Retardation
  • BPD and Low IQ
  • What's The Link Between BPD And Temporal Lobe Seizures?
  • BPD and Temporal Lobe Seizures
• Drug and Alcohol Use
  • Why Do You Say Borderlines Are Allergic to Alcohol?
  • What Are the Effects of Alcohol on Depression and BPD?
  • Does Combining Paxil With Alcohol Damage The Brain?
  • Does Combining Zoloft With Alcohol Make Their Symptoms Worse?
  • Should the BPD or Substance Abuse Be Treated First?
  • Is It Safe For My Friend To Drink Alcohol While Taking Zoloft?
  • BPD, Alcohol and Rage
  • BPD Diagnosis with Alcohol and Drug Addiction
  • BPD and Alcoholism
  • Will Paxil Work If The Person Smokes Marijuana?
  • Can't I Take Marijuana and Be Accepted for Who I Am?
  • Marijuana Addiction (No-BPD)
• Friends/Relatives
  • How do I inform someone that he/she has the BPD?
  • My ex-spouse has the BPD and I'm concerned about its effects on our children?
  • How Do I Help My Husband And Protect My Kids?
  • How Can I Help My Uncooperative BPD Son?
  • Can a Marriage Succeed When One Has the BPD?
  • Are Borderlines Unfit Parents?
  • Employee with BPD
  • Still Living With Parents at 35
  • BPD in a Platonic Relationship
  • BPD and a Successful Marriage
  • Son Suffering from the BPD
  • BPD Parent Effect on Children
  • BPD and Co-dependency
  • Children of Those Who Suffer From the BPD
  • BPD and Relationships
  • Mother with BPD
  • Safety Concerns for Children of Parent with BPD
  • BPD Relationship
  • Does My Mother Have the BPD?
  • Husband Fits BPD Diagnosis
  • Wife Drinks While Pregnant
  • In a Relationship with a BPD
  • Girls Refuse to Associate with BPD Mother
  • Boyfriend with BPD
  • BPD Family Members
  • Online Friend with BPD
  • Husband with BPD
  • Strange Boyfriend
  • BPD and The Elderly
• Living with BPD
  • What should I do first?
  • What should I do if I have the BPD?
  • What legal issues are involved with the BPD?
  • Can I be normal with the BPD?
  • What's making me feel so miserable?
  • I can't find a job that I can hold
  • I'm a mess. Is there any hope for me?
  • Can one grow out of the BPD?
  • Please Answer Some BPD Questions:
  • Should I Give Up?
  • Why Is She So Weird?
  • What Is Wrong With Her?
  • How Does One's Soul Affect Mental Illness?
  • BPD Stigma
  • Terrified of Hurting Others (No-BPD)
  • Can You 'Outgrow' the BPD?
  • Is BPD Hopeless?
  • Waking Up Angry and Hurt
  • BPD on Social Assistance
  • I’m Broke and Losing It
  • BPD and Trying in LA
  • I’m Driving Others Crazy
  • Does Having The BPD Make One Unfit To Be a Physician?
  • What Can I Do to Make Me Feel Better?
  • Can Staring At A Computer Monitor Cause Dysphoria?
  • Why Would Anybody Love Me?
• Other Questions, Non-BPD Related
  • What Is A Mixed Personality Disorder?
  • Psychiatrist with Mental Illness (No-BPD)
  • Dangerous Behaviors (No-BPD)
  • Suicide Ideation (No-BPD)
  • Schizoid Personality Disorder (No-BPD)
  • Developmental Personality Disorder? (No-BPD)
  • Severe Depression (No-BPD)
  • Attention Deficit Disorder (No-BPD)
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Major Depression and Trichotillomania (No-BPD)
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (No-BPD)
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Parkinson's Disease (No-BPD)
  • Autistic Child (No-BPD)
  • Doctors and Therapists Treating ADD (No-BPD)
  • What Causes Self-Mutilation and Can It Be Cured?
  • Is a Person with Bipolar Disorder Ever Violent? (No-BPD)
  • Extreme Shyness (No-BPD)
  • What Can Be Done For My ODD Son?
  • DID - Is There Really Any Hope?
  • Bipolar Medication Not Acting the Same as Before

Suicide

• Suicide Overview
• Why Do People Commit Suicide?
• What to Do When You Are Suicidal?
• Signs that Someone May Snap?
• Statistics

HealthyPlace.com has extensive information on suicide here.

The Book

• Life at the Border, a Book by Leland M. Heller, M.D.
• Life at the Border, Foreword

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