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A roundup of Mad in America's most read blogs and personal stories of 2023 as chosen by our readers.

According to the authors, 'Borderline Personality Disorder' emerged as a category during the heyday of psychoanalysis where it was used to denote situations that were on the line between anxiety disorder and psychosis. Despite classification as personality disorder, the authors argue that the characteristics of BPD do not match the consensus concept of other personality disorders. For example, the diagnostic criteria are not permanent personality traits but rather varying symptoms and ...

Researchers from the UK and New Zealand argue that Borderline Personality Disorder should be abandoned as a diagnostic category.

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Women hit worst by mental health strains, with more domestic and caring duties amid Covid lockdowns

Pandemic resulted in ‘minimal’ changes in symptoms, according to review led by McGill University researchers

Social prescribing became an official health service policy in October 2019 when the UK National Academy of Social Prescribing was opened by the then health secretary, Matt Hancock.

Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in the number of people suffering with health anxiety. Annalisa Barbieri reveals what triggered – and eventually settled – her ‘late-onset hypochondria’

You could find some surprising treatments on offer when you next visit your GP surgery. Instead of a prescription for pills, you might be given one to join a walking group, or an arts society.