The impact of borderline personality disorder and sub-threshold borderline personality disorder on the course of self-reported and clinician-rated depression in self-harming adolescents

Abstract Background Studies on adults suggest that the presence of comorbid depression and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is associated with an elevated risk of self-harming behaviours and that self-harming behaviours, when present, will have higher severity. This comorbidity, furthermore, co...

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Main Authors: Ruth-Kari Ramleth, Berit Groholt, Lien M. Diep, Fredrik A. Walby, Lars Mehlum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-10-01
Series:Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40479-017-0073-5