Guest Post by Mary Chistine
One hopes to never hear your child say that to you but many times they do.
“Mom, I think I know what’s wrong with Jennie!” My younger daughter, Bella, usually called me on her way home from nursing school to pass some of the time. She’d been doing a week of clinicals at the state mental hospital. One of the patients there had been diagnosed with BPD. This young woman had been exhibiting the same type of behavior as her sister. The most notable of which is explosive anger, even over what seems to be small things, and can escalate to a full blown melt down. I had never heard of BPD. Intrigued, I started what turned out to be months of research on this mental disorder beginning with finding out what it is and how one is diagnosed with BPD.
What does Borderline Personality Disorder mean?
