McLean Hospital offers comprehensive mental health services for children, adolescents, adults, and older adults with an array of psychiatric diagnoses, including addiction, borderline personality disorder, depression, anxiety, and trauma disorders.
Among the 461 enrolled individuals, 46% had MS, 22% depressive disorders, and 32% psychotic and other psychiatric disorders (among them, 23% obsessive-compulsive disorders, 19% borderline disorders, 19% alcohol addiction, 7% other addictive disorders, 8% bipolar disorders, and various other diseases with < 5% each).
Participants were asked to indicate whether they had been previously diagnosed with any of the following mental disorders: Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or mania, alcohol or drug addiction, depression, borderline personality disorder (BPD), social phobia, or PTSD.
Instead he championed it as a treatment for people with serious psychological disturbances like psychosis, severe borderline pathology, psychosomatic illness or addiction.
For example, impulsivity could lead to a range of problems: it is a characteristic of addiction, ASPD, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder and many more.
Third, the treatment of underlying ADHD may lead to improvements in comorbid disorders such as antisocial and borderline personality disorders, substance abuse disorders including addiction, and anxiety and depression including the risk for suicide.
Support for the belief that addiction is a disease was on the borderline of significance in predicting beliefs about imprisonment for heroin addiction.
I asked the same question of an unemployed, middle-aged woman with a borderline personality disorder who is currently receiving therapy for her long-term depression and addiction to antidepressants due to her experience of childhood abuse.
The shows that exhibit people with borderline personality disorders or some kind of mental failing are particularly awful, like My Strange Addiction or the variations on "People Who Have Too Much Fucking Stuff Because They Are Mentally Ill".
Doctors believed she was suffering borderline personality disorder (BPD), a serious mental illness associated with intense inner pain, mood swings and addiction.
