Social behaviour disorders
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Narcissistic personality disorder - Finding North
What is narcissistic personality disorder, what are the signs and symptoms, and what treatments are available for it?
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Borderline personality disorder - Finding North
What is borderline personality disorder, what are the signs and symptoms, and what treatments are available for it?
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Borderline personality disorder - MyDr.com.au
Borderline personality disorder is a mental illness that makes it difficult to manage feelings and impulses. Learn what you can do to start feeling better.
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Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)
Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is a modified version of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) designed to treat borderline personality disorder (BP...
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What are personality disorders? | Personality disorders | ReachOut Australia
Personality disorders are mental health problems in which your personality and behaviour cause you or others distress.
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Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)
Quick facts Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a complex and long-term mental health issue. People living with NPD may have a stro...
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Who can help with borderline personality disorder? | Your Health in Mind
BPD can be treated by psychiatrists and psychologists. It is sometimes also treated by GPs, nurses, social workers and o...
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Support services for personality disorders | Personality disorders | ReachOut Australia
A personality disorder is a condition where someone’s personality traits, the way they think, feel and behave are extreme and dysfunctional, causing them great distress.
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Personality conditions - Finding North
What are personality disorders, what are the signs and symptoms, and what treatments are available for them?
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What is a personality disorder?
Personality disorder is a term used to describe personality traits when they have become extreme, inflexible, and maladaptive.
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Borderline Personality Disorder | Ausmed
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a type of mental illness characterised by ongoing instability in the areas of interpersonal relationships, self-image and impulsivity. The term ‘borderline’ was first used in the era of psychoanalysis when the condition was thought to exist on the border of psychosis and neurosis. However, BPD is now understood to be a disorder in its own right.
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Borderline personality disorder - Orygen, Revolution in Mind
Orygen is the world’s leading research and knowledge translation organisation focusing on mental ill-health in young people.
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Social Phobia
Social phobia, the fear of being judged negatively, is often not recognised because patients do not like to talk about their fears. It is also not recognized because clinicians either confuse it with shyness, or judge the secondary depression or substance dependence to be the primary disorder.
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Compulsions | CRUfAD
CONTACT US URGENT CARE About Us Our Research For Patients For Clinicians Select Page Compulsions OCD Pages 271-276 from the Management of Mental Disorders, published by World Health Organization, Sydney
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Drug treatment for borderline personality disorder | Cochrane
Authors' conclusions: The available evidence indicates some beneficial effects with second-generation antipsychotics, mood stabilisers, and dietary supplementation by omega-3 fatty acids
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) | Ausmed
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental illness as per the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5-TR. OCD is estimated to affect about 3% of Australians in their lifetime - that’s more than 500,000 people.
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Obsessive compulsive & related disorders and young people - Orygen, Revolution in Mind
Orygen is the world’s leading research and knowledge translation organisation focusing on mental ill-health in young people.
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Psychological debriefing for preventing post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) | Cochrane
Authors' conclusions: There is no evidence that single session individual psychological debriefing is a useful treatment for the prevention of post traumatic stress disorder after traumatic incidents
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Self-help for anxiety disorders | Cochrane
Authors' conclusions: Self-help may be useful for people who are not able or are not willing to use other services for people with anxiety disorders; for people who can access it, face-to-face cognitive behavioural therapy is probably clinically superior
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Psychological treatments for people with bulimia nervosa and binging | Cochrane
Authors' conclusions: There is a small body of evidence for the efficacy of CBT in bulimia nervosa and similar syndromes, but the quality of trials is very variable and sample sizes are often small
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