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The stigma surrounding borderline personality disorder includes the belief that people with BPD are prone to violence toward others. [243] While movies and visual media often sensationalize people with BPD by portraying them as violent, the majority of researchers agree that people with BPD are unlikely to physically harm others. [ 243 ]
Stern emphasizes the need for prolonged supportive treatment before traditional psychoanalytic techniques can be effectively applied (Stern, 1938). He highlights the intense dependency and emotional immaturity of these patients, which complicates their engagement in therapy.
[108] [109] [110] A key difference between bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder is the nature of the mood swings; in contrast to the sustained changes to mood over days to weeks or longer, those of the latter condition (more accurately called emotional dysregulation) are sudden and often short-lived, and secondary to social ...
Doctors called me manipulative but it was my personality disorder. ... BPD is a disorder of mood and how a person interacts with others. It is the most commonly recognised personality disorder ...
Limited recent research suggests it is significantly more effective than transference-focused psychotherapy, with half of individuals with borderline personality disorder assessed as having achieved full recovery after four years, with two-thirds showing clinically significant improvement.
Gunderson published nearly 250 papers, 100 reviews, and 12 books regarding borderline and other personality disorders. In 1984, he published his major textbook on BPD, titled simply, Borderline Personality Disorder. According to Massachusetts General Hospital, his success led to him being called the "father" of BPD.
In a study comparing 100 healthy individuals to 100 borderline personality disorder patients, analysis showed that BPD patients were significantly more likely not to have been breastfed as a baby (42.4% in BPD vs. 9.2% in healthy controls). [76]
Oil is the most valuable export of Canada, the world's fourth-largest oil exporter which pumps 4 million barrels per day (bpd) over the border to U.S. refiners. That is about 90% of Canada's oil ...