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Distinguishing borderline personality disorder from bipolar disorder: differential diagnosis and implications

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Borderline personality disorder is oftentimes difficult to distinguish from bipolar disorder and wrong diagnosis can lead to ineffective treatment. A patient is also sometimes both at the same time, in which case, a combined pharmacological and psychosocial treatment is needed. One clinical case illustrates how a patient was treated as having bipolar disorder when she actually was suffering from borderline personality disorder. The latter diagnosis was established after analyzing the patient's family, past psychiatric, developmental and recent psychiatric treatment histories.

Author: Gunderson, John G., Bolton, Sara
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association
Publication Name: American Journal of Psychiatry
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0002-953X
Year: 1996
Diagnosis, Mental illness, Bipolar disorder, Psychiatric diagnosis

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Paranoid Personality Disorder
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Nov 15, 2010 @ 2:02 am
Psychotherapy is a part of the treatment, which is apply on the personality disorder patients. Patients with the personality disorder such as paranoid personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and narcissistic personality disorder, they need attention, care, as well as some treatments like psychotherapy, antidepressants, antipsychotics and anti anxiety medications.
http://www.disorderscentral.com/paranoid-personality-disorder.html

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A little cream and sugar: psychotherapy with a borderline patient

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Patients undergoing psychotherapy must be provided with personalized psychodynamic therapy within a context of manifold treatment programs. Despite culminating abruptly with limited degrees of change, such therapies may provide isolation of splitting, which reduces self-destructiveness. The pharmacotherapy and personalized therapy should also be coupled with psychoeducational activities and cognitive behavior or interpersonal group therapy.

Author: Gunderson, John G., Wheelis, Joan
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association
Publication Name: American Journal of Psychiatry
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0002-953X
Year: 1998
Usage, Case studies, Drug therapy, Cognitive therapy, Psychodynamic psychotherapy

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