People with borderline or antisocial personality disorders are prescribed antipsychotic or sedative medication only for short‑term crisis management or treatment of comorbid conditions. No drugs have ...

People with borderline personality disorder have a debilitating fear of real or perceived abandonment. Ironically, they often push people away.

People have the right to be involved in discussions and make informed decisions about their care, as described in NICE's information on making decisions about your care. Making decisions using NICE ...

Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone's everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research ...

Personality Disorders are long-standing patterns of thinking and behavior that lead to problems in interpersonal relationships and may cause impairment or distress in the person with the disorder. A ...

People with the personality disorder have an extreme fear of being left. They use anger to protect from feeling fear, but it can lead to isolation.

A classic communication theory, the double bind, may offer a unifying explanation for the paradoxes at the core of borderline ...

We need to be more aware of personality disorders - which are more prevalent than people realise, say experts. Prof Eddie Kane, of the Institute of Mental Health, said 4% of people have such a ...

Schizotypal personality disorder is a cluster A personality disorder that involves various symptoms. These symptoms include difficulty in relationships, atypical thinking and behavior, and a distorted ...

Comorbidity is when a person has more than one health condition at once. Researchers investigating the comorbidity of personality disorders have found people with certain disorders may have other ...