Keeping Kids Healthy: Recognizing Borderline Personality Disorder in Children

Could your child’s explosiveness and impulsive behavior be a sign of “borderline personality disorder?” Are you often confronted with intense rages, hostility, oversensitivity and overreaction, or self-injurious behavior like cutting, burning, or substance abuse? Are your daughter’s relationships unstable – do friends turn from “soul mates” to worst enemies in the space of hours? Does your son often misperceive things, inaccurately interpreting conversations around him in the worst possible light?

If any of this sounds familiar, you need to watch this show. Because these are some of the signs of a little-understood and under-diagnosed condition called “borderline personality disorder” – a condition that used to be acknowledged only in adults, but that the mental health community is now beginning to recognize, and treat, in children too. And the treatment can make a major difference – not only in your child’s ability to handle the world around her, but in your ability to get along with your child! Join our host Dr. Winnie King as she learns from two experienced families and a skilled psychologist how to recognize this condition, and find out where to go to get the help you need for yourself and your child.

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