by Cole Dyar | Oct 14, 2026 | Blog
Quick Answer: A BPD favorite person is someone who becomes a central source of emotional safety, reassurance, and attachment for a person with borderline personality disorder traits. The bond can feel deeply important, but it may become painful when one person’s...
by Cole Dyar | Oct 13, 2026 | Blog
Quick Answer: Borderline personality disorder splitting, or BPD splitting, is a pattern where someone may suddenly experience a person, relationship, or situation as all good or all bad, especially during emotional stress or perceived rejection. In relationships, this...
by Cole Dyar | Oct 13, 2026 | Blog
Quick Answer: Derealization is the feeling that the world around you is unreal, distant, foggy, dreamlike, or emotionally disconnected. Depersonalization disorder, more accurately called depersonalization-derealization disorder (DPDR), involves persistent or recurring...
by Cole Dyar | Oct 13, 2026 | Blog
Quick Answer: Treatment-resistant depression means depression hasn’t improved enough after standard treatment, often after at least two adequate antidepressant trials. If antidepressants aren’t working, the next step is usually to reassess the diagnosis, treatment...
by Cole Dyar | Oct 13, 2026 | Blog
Quick Answer: Bipolar psychosis happens when a severe manic, depressive, or mixed mood episode includes psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, or a break from reality. Clinicians may describe this as “bipolar disorder with psychotic features,”...
by Cole Dyar | Oct 13, 2026 | Blog
Quick Answer: A mixed episode bipolar presentation happens when symptoms of mania or hypomania occur alongside depressive symptoms during the same mood episode. Clinicians now usually describe this as “bipolar disorder with mixed features,” which can look like racing...