Where mood disorders can cause temporary or fluctuating changes in mood, personality disorders cause symptoms that remain consistent over time and across a range of situations. For example, bipolar ...

Feeling down in the dumps? A blood test could soon predict just how bad things are, making it easier to diagnose and treat illnesses such as depression and bipolar disorder. Until now, there has been ...

Bipolar disorder causes significant and sustained fluctuations in mood. This differs from the fleeting mood swings that many people experience from time to time. Mood swings are very common and may ...

Dr Fred Harvey, as host of WMNF Tampa’s “Healthy Steps,” helps set the stage for a functional medicine discussion of the diagnosis of mood disorders by questioning the standard of care in psychiatry, ...

In addition to often being referred to by the same acronym (BPD), bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder share other superficial similarities that make it easy to confuse the two.