BPD explained to loved ones
Increasingly diagnosed but still poorly understood, BPD has a considerable impact on relationships.
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Anxiety, irritability, emotional instability, strong impulsiveness ... Borderline disorder is more and more diagnosed and yet still relatively unknown.
Borderline disorder has the particularity of having a considerable impact on relationships.
The extreme emotional states of the person who suffers from them often exhaust those around them.
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How to better understand this mood disorder?
How does it evolve over time?
How does the sufferer feel?
How to accompany and support it without exhausting yourself?
Dr Déborah Ducasse,
psychiatrist and psychotherapist.
Head
of the Mood and Emotional Disorders / Borderline Therapy Center, at Montpellier University Hospital
.
Co-author of the book
Borderline Disorder Explained to Relatives
, Editions Odile Jacob
Véronique Brand-Arpon
, nurse psychotherapist at
Montpellier University Hospital
and doctor in health biology.
Co-author of the book
Borderline Disorder Explained to Relatives,
Editions Odile Jacob
Dr Racky Wade-Kane,
Psychiatrist at Fann University Hospital in Dakar, Senegal.
Teacher-researcher at the
Faculty of Medicine of the Cheikh Anta Diop University
of Dakar
At the end of the program, we find the sexuality chronicle of
Dr Catherine Solano
, sexologist.
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