Category Archives: Borderline Personality

You Can End Your Borderline Personality Style

The anger that the borderline individual thinks is helpful in fact pushes folks away.

When Your Mother Has a Borderline Personality

A parent's borderline personality disorder can have lifelong devastating effects on sons and daughters. What can help children who have a parent who rages at them?

What Are Your Options if Your Parent Has BPD Rages?

Parents' harsh anger can emotionally disable a son or daughter—child or adult.

Strong Feelings: Amygdala Reset for Borderline Personality?

How do you feel toward yourself or someone you know whose emotions are stormy and sometimes frightening? Anger and hatred, anxiety, compassion—or all of the above?

Overcoming BPD: 3 Vital Ways Parents of Teenagers Can Help

What can you do if one or more of your children, young or grown, shows the emotional hyper-reactivity and excessive anger that characterize borderline personality disorder?

More Info for Adult Children of Borderline Mothers

These comments from readers of my earlier postings on borderline personality disorder have useful suggestions for understanding and coping with family members who rage.

Gender Bias in Diagnosing Anger: Batterer or Borderline?

How much of a role does gender play in diagnostic labeling of people who rage?

From Cute Little Girl to Borderline Personality

Do people with borderline personality patterns fear abandonment because they know that they can be difficult to live with? And if so, why do they often act so unpleasantly?

Evil Genes? An Unconventional Perspective on BPD

Why do folks with borderline personality disorder sometimes act in such astoundingly selfish and hurtful ways?

Can People With Borderline Personalities Succeed In Life?

What happens in the lives of women and men who have a borderline personality disorder?