A classic communication theory, the double bind, may offer a unifying explanation for the paradoxes at the core of borderline ...

Psychologists have long known that certain linguistic habits reveal how people are functioning internally. For example, ...

Personality disorder (PD) discharges occupy a shadow zone in military separations. Unlike disciplinary discharges or those for willful misconduct, PD discharges are cloaked in medical terminology – ...

“I’m an over-sharer,” Gage tells me during a Zoom video interview from his publisher Simon & Schuster’s offices in New York City. “I probably say too much. But I love memoirs where they overshare and ...

Mental health disorders come in many forms and affect thoughts, emotions and behaviors in complex ways. Conditions like anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder are among the most frequently diagnosed ...

For the first time since 2001, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has updated its clinical practice guideline on borderline personality disorder (BPD). The new guideline is “quite substantial ...

Where mood disorders can cause temporary or fluctuating changes in mood, personality disorders cause symptoms that remain consistent over time and across a range of situations. For example, bipolar ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I am continuing my ongoing series about the ...

Comorbidity is when a person has more than one health condition at once. Researchers investigating the comorbidity of personality disorders have found people with certain disorders may have other ...

As a public hospital healthcare professional, I am involved in a psilocybin study sponsored by COMPASS pathways. I am personally uncompensated by them. I was funded by the Swedish Research Council in ...

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 ...

Lizzie Duszynski-Goodman is a journalist living in the Midwest with her husband and two young children. Her work explores the intersection of mental health, wellness and parenting. She is the former ...