Personality Disorders
CategoryA Matter of Life and Death
Imagine: you work or go to school full-time, maybe you do both. You may come home and study, do laundry, clean, cook dinner and, on top of..
Where Drama Meets Disorder
When we think of someone having a mental disorder, we often think of someone staying in bed for days, experiencing crippling anxiety or ab..
BPD: Different Stigma for Different Genders
When it comes to a physical illness such as a heart attack, gender differences can be undeniably obvious. According to Harvard Medical Sch..
Seeing Eye-to-Eye on Personality Disorders
In a world full of millions of people, there is said to be about sixteen types of personalities when it comes to the Myers-Briggs Type Ind..
Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Fact or Fiction
We all have that friend who can’t stop taking selfies. That sibling that must look at themselves every time they pass a mirror. That co-wo..
A World of Bias
According to a recent study, conducted by Gawda and Czubak, it was found that the prevalence rate for having at least one personality diso..
Breaking Down Personality
Psychotherapy, ACT, CBT, DBT…what does it all mean and what are personality disorders?
The DSM-V defines Personality Disorders (PD) a..
The Many Faces of Hollywood
Psychiatrist Dr. Garrett Marie Deckel received an email last week from a patient with multiple personalities, a condition known as dissoci..
With Love, BPD
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, affects, and marke..
“You’re Just Paranoid”
You’re studying for an exam tomorrow. You’ve been reading through the material for the past few hours and slowly begin to understand and r..