This story begins, as all good stories should, with a discussion of chocolate and your brain. The cocoa plant and your brain both make a chemical called anandamide. Scientists have not yet discovered ...

Everyone experiences the negative emotions of shame and guilt from time to time. You’ve hurt a good friend of yours by making an insensitive joke and feel bad for days afterwards. At times, shame can ...

Petulant borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a potential subtype of BPD. It involves mood changes and irritability. There is debate over subtypes of BPD. Petulant BPD is one of the four subtypes ...

Borderline Personality Disorder patients now have access to several effective therapies including dialectical behavioral therapy, mentalization based therapy and psychiatric management with goals of ...

People with borderline personality disorder have a debilitating fear of real or perceived abandonment. Ironically, they often push people away.

Learn what borderline personality disorder symptoms are through testimonies of people who have experienced them. The post How ...

“The new Taylor Swift album, The Tortured Poets Department, really hit me hard,” I told my therapist almost one year ago to the date. It dropped on 19 April 2024, and I was speaking about the end of a ...