Mary Zanarini, EdD is the Director of the Laboratory for the Study of Adult Development at McLean Hospital ..read more

Ursula Whiteside, PhD is the developer of the suicide prevention website, NowMattersNow. Ursula studied and trained with DBT creator Dr. Marsha Linehan at the University of Washington.  ..read more

BPD researcher and psychiatrist Antonia New   Signup for BPD Updates ..read more

Coming Soon. In this new program leading BPD experts, people with BPD, and their loved ones explain how the brain can regulate our emotions and the benefits and limits of the use of medication in the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. Signup for BPD Updates ..read more

Coming Soon! Here’s a trailer from our interview with the authors of “DBT for Dummies”, Gillian Galen, PsyD and Blaise Aguirre, MD. Gillian Galen, PsyD is a Psycologist at Harvard Medical School and Blaise Aguirre, MD is a Psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School. Part one of this interview will appear in BPDvideo’s next OnePointSixPercent Newsletter. Sign up here for BPDvideo Newsletter: OnePointsixPercent ..read more

TW: Abuse “We’ve made some progress, on a societal level, toward recognizing and normalizing certain mental health issues, but stigma and misunderstanding around many diagnoses still exist. Most people, for example, have a fairly decent understanding of what anxiety and depression entail. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case for BPD ― and it can lead people to assume the worst.” Above is a segment from an important read on how difficult it has been for people living with Borderline Personality Disorder to endure the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial. The trial, already very ugly, sensitive, and comp ..read more

TW: Discussion of Suicide and Self Harm The Matt Ritchel of the NYTimes recently wrote an incredibly thorough report on the rising mental health crisis among teenagers in the United States. While mental health continues to become destigmatized, awareness alone is not the reason for so the surge in depressive episodes or other incidents related to mental health: “Young people are more educated; less likely to get pregnant, use drugs; less likely to die of accident or injury,” said Candice Odgers, a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine. “By many markers, kids are doing fantastic ..read more

Happy Birthday! Dr. Linehan is the developer of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, also known as DBT. DBT is the the most effective and widely studied treatment for people with Borderline Personality Disorder. particularly for the BPD related problems of suicidal thinking and chronic self harm. The goals of DBT are to help people understand their out- of-control emotions and to teach them how to better manage those erratic emotions in real life situations. Through her unique contributions, Dr. Linehan fundamentally changed the widespread belief that people with BPD were difficult, if not impossibl ..read more

This VeryWellHealth Article by Sarah Bence discusses BPD being a genetic disorder: “In 2019, a large-scale Swedish twin study (and the highest-quality twin study on BPD performed to date) found that identical twins were significantly more likely to develop BPD than fraternal twins (hazard ratios of 11.5 to 7.4, respectively) The study concluded that clusters of BPD in families have genetic causes and are not caused by shared environmental factors (such as socioeconomic status). That means that if those identical twins had been separated and grew up in different environments, their likelihood o ..read more

Given the recent discourse around mental health, it felt important to remind readers of the enduring need to break the stigma surrounding BPD. The article we are highlighting today comes from a student newspaper, the Observer, from Central Washington University, and does a fantastic job at addressing stigma. Senior Reporter Catherine Camarata has an in-depth discussion with a student named Charlotte Casler about how she has been impacted by her diagnosis of BPD and her own struggles combating BPD stigma: “Group therapy has a huge stigma,” Casler said. “I was right there with everyone else thin ..read more