BPD explained to loved ones

Increasingly diagnosed but still poorly understood, BPD has a considerable impact on relationships.

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By: Caroline Paré Follow

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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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  • 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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