How to Reduce Your Heart Rate When You’re Anxious

Living with borderline personality disorder (BPD) can feel like a never-ending attack of symptoms on top of symptoms. Not only do you have the symptoms of BPD to contend with, but each symptom often has several symptoms of its own. For example,…

Can Borderline Personality Disorder Cause A Low Sex Drive?

In a previous article, we discussed how hypersexuality can be a symptom of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Hypersexuality is when someone is excessively preoccupied with sexual thoughts, urges, or behaviors that interfere with their life. While it’s true that some people with…

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Intrusive Thoughts

Intrusive thoughts are involuntary, unwanted thoughts, images, or impulses that enter a person’s mind. These unwanted thoughts can be distressing as they may involve irrational fears, violence, self-harm, or other thoughts that could be deemed inappropriate. For example, someone might be walking…

Quotes About Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

Quotes about Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can provide validation to the feelings we experience as sufferers of the disorder. They can also offer us an insight to how other people view BPD and their experiences with Borderline Personality Disorder. That’s why we’ve…

The Scary Parts of Recovering From BPD

On the surface, the idea of recovering from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) sounds like a dream scenario. Gone are all those nasty symptoms that have been dragging you down and making you feel awful for all those years. What could be scary…

The Surprising Fact About BPD and Pain Tolerance

There are many interesting and surprising things about Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). From how there are 256 potential combinations of BPD symptoms to how omega-3 helps reduce BPD symptoms, there are always new findings and interesting little statistics about BPD that come…

Celebrities Who Have BPD

It’s become increasingly common for celebrities to be willing to discuss their mental health issues during interviews. These mental health issues can come in many forms; depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder are all challenges that many celebrities deal with in their daily…

Dissociation and Borderline Personality Disorder

Dissociation in times of stress is one of the nine symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). However, unlike the more obvious symptoms like rapid mood swings or unstable relationships, not everyone is as familiar with dissociation and the ways it can manifest.…

How Do You Get A BPD Diagnosis?

There are a few different kinds of people who visit us at BPD-Aware.com. The first are people who have Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and are looking for tips on how to manage their symptoms and work towards recovery. The second are people…

STEPPS for Borderline Personality Disorder

Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS) was developed in the late 1990s by Dr. Nancee Blum, an expert in the field of psychiatry. The STEPPS program has been shown to be helpful for people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)…

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