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20 Tips for Dating Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder
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This blog post sheds light on BPD traits, common BPD triggers and it also provides 20 tips for fostering a healthy and supportive relationship.
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BPD Relationships: The Best Partner for Someone with BPD
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In this post, we explore what makes the best partner for someone with BPD and how to navigate BPD relationships for both partners.
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Top 30 Q+A’s To Help Loved Ones Understand BPD
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Answers to the Top 30 questions searched online that can help a loved one, friend, mentor or coworker better understand BPD.
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Understanding BPD: Finding the Light at the End of the Tunnel (Q+A)
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Seasoned mental health professional Jaymi Dormaier hosted a seminar about the separate myths, facts, signs, BPD symptoms, causes and treatment options of the often misunderstood diagnosis known as borderline personality disorder. “Borderline personality disorder is diagnosed on the basis of a pervasive pattern of instability, of intrapersonal relationships, self image and affects,” said Dormaier, who […]
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BPD Treatment – A Good Prognosis Diagnosis?
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This post provides a guide to BPD Treatment and answers the questions: “What is BPD?” “What causes BPD?” “Is BPD genetic?” “Is BPD treatable?” and more. We’ll also cover the 9 BPD symptoms found in the DSM-5, therapy for borderline personality disorder and medication for borderline personality disorder.
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Teens with BPD: How to Deal with BPD Episodes for Parents
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BPD episodes are hard to live with when you have the condition. Teens with BPD do not have it easy. Parenting a teen with BPD can be complicated too. BPD episodes can be difficult to manage as a parent of a borderline teenager. I know firsthand because I am in remission from borderline personality disorder […]
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The Do’s & Don’ts of Supporting a Friend with BPD
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All You Need to Know About Helping a Friend with BPD Having a friend with borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be challenging and difficult, but it’s possible to provide your friend with the support they need. BPD is a serious mental illness that affects how someone interacts with others, manages their emotions and behaves. It’s […]
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A Guide to Favorite Person Relationships (for BPD)
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All You Need to Know About a ‘BPD Favorite Person’ People with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) often struggle to form and maintain meaningful relationships. In many cases, they may develop an intense attachment to one person in particular, known as a favorite person (or FP). This is a complex relationship that can be incredibly rewarding […]
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Living with BPD: Arpita’s BPD Recovery (In Their Words)
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Trigger Warning: verbal & physical abuse, self harm, suicide attempts, death by suicide, hospitalization. Read at your own discretion. My Living with BPD Story Living with BPD is no easy feat. This is one girl’s story: “Hello everyone. I am Arpita, a resident of Delhi, India. I will be telling you my living with bpd story […]
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How to Make Plans Without Triggering Your Partner with BPD
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A Common BPD Trigger Seen in BPD Relationships If you’re new here, I’m Sarah: a mom, wife and blogger formerly diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. My goal for this blog is to help raise BPD awareness, dispel common BPD myths and help other people with BPD and their BPD relationships. This post touches on a […]
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BPD Splitting: What A Devaluing Split Looks Like for Borderline Personality Disorder
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Trigger Warning: Self destructive thoughts, splitting black, invalidation, relationship argument In this post, I go over what BPD splitting is and show real life examples of splitting. I also touch on distorted thoughts a person with BPD might have during an episode. As always, please note that my experience with BPD does not reflect all people […]
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Saying No to Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder
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Saying no to someone with borderline personality disorder can be tricky. Enforcing boundaries can result in unpredictable reactions or “BPD episodes.” If you love someone with borderline personality disorder or have a spouse with BPD, you may regularly walk on eggshells and not know when you’ll see a glimpse of BPD’s rage or feel the […]
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BPD Episodes 101: Everything You Need to Know
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People with BPD are often labelled as dramatic, attention seeking or crazy. While it may look that way from the outside sometimes, what’s going on inside is A LOT more complex. What people with BPD need—especially during BPD episodes, is patience, validation, support and reassurance. If you’re new to BPD Beautiful, I’m Audrey Harper and […]
