ArticleBorderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation2015
The comorbidity of borderline personality disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder: revisiting the prevalence and associations in a general population sample.
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- Re-examining the comorbidity between borderline personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder: a systematic narrative review.BMC psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Psychotherapies for adults with complex presentations of PTSD: a clinical guideline and five systematic reviews with meta-analyses.BMJ mental health · 2025Pooled it
- Imagery Rescripting (ImRs) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) as treatment of childhood-trauma related post-traumatic stress disorder (Ch-PTSD) in adults: effects on Schema Modes.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Trial
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing with and without Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Comorbid Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Psychotherapy and psychosomatics · 2025Trial
- Within-patient association between emotion regulation and outcome in prolonged exposure for posttraumatic stress disorder.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2024Trial
- BPD Compass: Using a dimensional model of psychopathology to treat co-occurring borderline personality disorder and posttraumatic stress symptoms.Journal of traumatic stress · 2024Trial
- Is adherence to dialectic behaviour therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and cognitive processing therapy related to treatment outcome in PTSD after childhood abuse?European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Trial
- Scales for assessing therapeutic adherence and competence in dialectical behaviour therapy for PTSD: development and analysis of psychometric properties.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2022Trial
- Traumatic life experiences during critical periods lead to diverse developmental trajectories.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Article
- Can therapists and senior advisors predict improvement of PTSD severity, based on clinical intuition and liking of their patients?European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Predicting the outcome of psychological treatments for borderline personality disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder: a machine learning approach to predict long-term outcome of Narrative Exposure Therapy vs. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy based treatment.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- An examination of the role of PTSD and childhood trauma on treatment outcomes for individuals with borderline personality disorder in dialectical behavior therapy.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2025Article
- The Association Between Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms and Social Behaviour Among University Students.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Beyond diagnosis: symptom patterns across complex PTSD and borderline personality disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Health-related quality of life in psychiatric outpatients: a cross-sectional study of associations with symptoms, diagnoses, and employment status.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024Article
- PTSD Symptoms Among College Students: Linkages with Familial Risk, Borderline Personality, and Sexual Assault.Journal of child sexual abuse · 2024Article
- Trauma-related symptoms in adolescents: the differential roles of sexual abuse and mentalizing.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Sexual Dysfunctions in Women with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Following Childhood Sexual Abuse: Prevalence Rates According to DSM-5 and Clinical Correlates.Archives of sexual behavior · 2023Article
- Psychopathological Determinants of Quality of Life in People with Borderline Personality Disorder.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe comorbidity of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is frequent, yet not well understood. The influence of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) in the development of this comorbidity has been a focus of prior clinical studies, but empirical evidence to generalize this focus to the broader population is lacking. Primary aims of the present study included evaluation of: (a) the association of this comorbidity with decrements in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and (b) the importance of CSA as a predictive factor for this comorbidity in a general population sample.
methodsWe utilized data from Wave 2 of the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions, a nationally representative face-to-face survey evaluating mental health in the non-institutionalized adult population of the United States. Data from respondents who met criteria for BPD and/or PTSD were analyzed (N = 4104) to assess potential associations between and among lifetime BPD-PTSD comorbidity, CSA, gender, healthcare usage, and mental and physical HRQOL.
resultsLifetime comorbidity of BPD and PTSD was associated with more dysfunction than either individual disorder; and the factors of gender, age, and CSA exhibited significant effects in the prediction of this comorbidity and associated decrements in HRQOL.
conclusionsResults support the measured focus on CSA as an important, but not necessary, etiologic factor and emphasize this comorbidity as a source of greater suffering and public health burden than either BPD or PTSD alone. The differential impact of these disorders occurring alone versus in comorbid form highlights the importance of diagnosing both BPD and PTSD and attending to lifetime comorbidity.
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