Screening for Borderline Personality Disorder in Psychiatric Outpatients With Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder.

CONCLUSIONS: Despite the phenomenological overlap between BPD and mood disorders, inquiry about affective instability functions well as a clinically useful screen for BPD in patients with MDD and bipolar disorder. In patients presenting for the treatment of MDD or bipolar disorder, clinicians should screen for BPD in the same way that they screen for other comorbid psychiatric disorders-by inquiring about a single feature of the disorder (ie, affective instability), the presence of which captures almost all patients with the disorder and the absence of which rules out the disorder. PMID: 30677270 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30677270?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry - January 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Tags: J Clin Psychiatry Source Type: research