Global Health Mag

If you live with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you’re probably familiar with the nine classic criteria commonly associated with the diagnosis. Symptoms like frantic efforts to avoid abandonment, uncontrollable anger and black-and-white thinking often plague people who live with BPD. To learn more, check out the graphic we created below. While we tend to focus on the symptoms themselves, we don’t always talk about the one thing that often …

It’s a typical Tuesday evening and I’m enjoying a night in, catching up on some TV shows and sipping on some lavender tea to wind down before bed. Around 8 p.m., I receive a text message from someone I have been seeing for a few weeks. He tells me simply, “I’m not interested in continuing this,” and then I’m ghosted. …

The whirlwind romance of Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson is over. Multiple media outlets, including CNN and People, are reporting the split. The news was first reported by TMZ. Neither Grande, 25, nor Davidson, 24, have commented, but he deleted his Instagram account Sunday night. USA TODAY has reached out to Davidson’s and Grande’s representatives for comment. Love blossomed for the pop star and the “Saturday Night …

As a professional in the mental health field who also has borderline personality disorder (BPD), I am frequently faced with the stigma surrounding the disorder, and I’ve seen firsthand how it affects those with BPD, their access to treatment and their self-image. Borderline personality disorder is one of the most stigmatized mental illnesses, and this has a lot to do with the lack of education mental health professionals receive …

One of my closest friends tried to hang herself with a scarf. She was inspired by one of her heroes, celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, whom apparently and tragically had committed suicide in the same manner in his hotel room in France just a couple years past. She passed out, waking up a few minutes or a few hours later, she …

I am a very sensitive person — it’s kind of a main symptom of having borderline personality disorder (BPD). It’s been said that having BPD is really being an “empath” and not knowing how to control your abilities. Everything I’ve read about empaths leads me to believe this could be true. When I’m around other people, I can feel their …

There’s so much stigma surrounding borderline personality disorder (a mental illness characterized by emotional dysregulation and unstable interpersonal relationships) that finding a movie that accurately depicts it can feel like an impossible task. Many people only know BPD based on stereotypes, so it’s easy to question whether compassionate depictions of BPD and its symptoms exist in pop culture at all. …

I have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD). I consider myself low-middle functioning. I cannot work due to becoming overwhelmed and having meltdowns. I also have communication difficulties with work colleagues and I lose motivation quite quickly. I currently live alone–but I don’t actually live alone at all. I constantly need someone around me. When I’m psychically on my own, I …

In a new setting, I tend to introduce myself as a quiet introvert, which is a fact that has confused many down the road of our first meeting. They question how such a person blends into crowds so easily when I clearly stated in the beginning that I stray from the social side of life. It brings about a question …

A forensic psychologist testified Tuesday that actor Amber Heard suffers from borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder, as the civil lawsuit between her and ex-husband Johnny Depp continues to wallow in the couple’s personal issues. Depp is suing Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post referring to herself as “a public figure representing domestic …

The field of psychiatry is heating up, and neuroscientists are discovering what is going on in our minds in the fog of mental illness.  What makes a brain Borderline? The old adage about two people being on different wavelengths — its true! The diagram above, on the right shows a ‘healthy’ well adjusted brain, on the left the brain of someone with borderline personality …

Pete Davidson has that post-rehab glow. The “Saturday Night Live” alum, who hit the road on a comedy tour with comedian John Mulaney and political talk-show host Jon Stewart this month, kicked off his set at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino’s Etess Arena in Atlantic City, N.J., on Sunday by addressing his most recent stint in treatment for substance abuse issues. “I am fresh out …

Pete Davidson pens open letter to fans about mental health, online trollsThe “Saturday Night Live” comedian posted an emotional, raw note on his social media about mental health and online bullies. Pete Davidson’s Instagram account was shut down on Saturday after he posted an alarming message. “i really don’t want to be on this earth anymore. i’m doing my best …

Throughout his four seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, Pete Davidson has proved himself wholly unafraid to speak openly about his mental health on national television. For instance, in first-person bits on “Weekend Update” segments, Davidson has riffed on living with depression and borderline personality disorder (BPD). In a new interview with Variety, Davidson went even deeper, speaking about his past experience with suicidal …

People often describe feeling a sense of relief when they receive a mental health diagnosis after years of unexplained symptoms. Pete Davidson, who has borderline personality disorder (BPD), is one of them. In a conversation with Glenn Close for the Variety series Actors on Actors, Davidson spoke about what it was like to finally receive his BPD diagnosis in 2017. “I got diagnosed with BPD …