Borderline Intellectual Functioning

Healthline: Borderline Intellectual Functioning: Not a Formal Diagnosis, but Should It Be?

Borderline intellectual functioning (BIF) isn’t currently a stand-alone diagnosis. Some diagnostic guidelines use it as a descriptive code, while others include it within a broader spectrum of ...

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MedPage Today: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: An Evaluation of Intellectual Function Over Time

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The Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) diagnosis was originally introduced in DSM-III as a new category separated from the other “borderline” condition of schizotypal personality disorder. Until ...

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I have been treating clients for borderline personality disorder for more than 45 years. When I first started studying the topic, most theorists emphasized the role early abandonment trauma played in ...

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Overview Borderline personality disorder is a mental health condition that affects the way people feel about themselves and others, making it hard to function in everyday life. It includes a pattern of unstable, intense relationships, as well as impulsiveness and an unhealthy way of seeing themselves. Impulsiveness involves having extreme emotions and acting or doing things without thinking ...

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental health condition that affects your ability to regulate your emotions. You may experience periods of feeling intense and often uncontrollable emotions after a triggering event. As a result, it can affect the way you see yourself and cause you to act impulsively, which can disrupt relationships in your life.

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive, long-term pattern of significant interpersonal relationship instability, acute fear of abandonment, and intense emotional outbursts. [7][13][14] People with BPD frequently exhibit self-harming behaviors and engage in risky activities, primarily caused by difficulties in regulating emotions. [15][16 ...