by Lightfully Behavioral Health | May 4, 2024 | Borderline Personality Disorder
Your personality is about the qualities that make you who you are, and they shape how you’re perceived by others. Some people have charismatic personalities, while others are more shy. You could pride yourself on being honest, empathetic or dedicated. While everyone...
by Levi | Feb 12, 2024 | Borderline Personality Disorder
Psychological defense mechanisms are strategies individuals use, often unconsciously, to protect themselves from distressing thoughts, emotions, conflicts, or perceived threats to their self-image or self-worth. Splitting, also known as “black-and-white...
by kelly | Feb 1, 2024 | Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental health condition that affects 1.6% of people in the U.S. population. This disorder is often characterized by intense and unstable relationships with others, a distorted sense of self and/or extreme changes in emotions...
by kelly | Jan 31, 2024 | Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a type of mental health condition that involves symptoms such as emotional dysregulation and unstable thoughts, feelings and behaviors. It’s a condition that affects nearly 1.4% of adults in the U.S. with nearly 75% of those...
by Nicole Siegfried, Ph.D., CEDS | Nov 15, 2023 | Borderline Personality Disorder
Your personality plays a huge role in how you present yourself to the world. The characteristics that influence your behavioral, cognitive and emotional patterns help you form your sense of self and identity. But there are also mental health disorders that can...
by Andrea Hollowell | Jul 10, 2023 | Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder
Mental health disorders look different for everyone, as there are more than 200 that have been defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. And there are many overlapping symptoms between different disorders that can lead to a lack of...
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