Borderline Personality Disorder and ADHD

00:00 Introduction to the topic
00:33 PowerPoint Presentation on the base rates and percent overlap of these disorders
02:59 Why are the disorders more often co-occurring than by chance alone?
07:36 The diagnostic criteria for BPD and their overlap and distinction from ADHD
18:58 Treatments for the disorders – shared and distinct approaches
21:09 Conclusion

This video discusses the co-occurrence of borderline personality disorder (BPD) with ADHD, the reasons for this overlap, including similar diagnostic criteria in some instances, and the differing treatments for each.

PLEASE NOTE: I occasionally misidentify BPD as bipolar disorder in this video as their acronyms are similar and I am old. I believe I caught and corrected most of these at the time when they happened. But there are several times where I am discussing bipolar disorder and I didn’t correct those occasions. Apologies for any confusion.

References

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) revisited – a review-update on common grounds and subtle distinctions. I. Ditrich et al. (2021). Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 8, https://link.springer.com/article/10....

Do borderline personality disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder co-aggregate in families? A population-based study of 2 million Swedes. R. Kuja-Halkola et al. (2018). Molecular Psychiatry, 26, 341-349. https://www.nature.com/articles/s4138...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder And Borderline Personality Disorder In Adults: A Review Of Their Links And Risks. L. Weiner et al. (2019). Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 15, 3115-3129. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...

Diagnostic criteria for BPD come from the DSM5 as shown at VeryWellMind.com:
https://www.verywellmind.com/borderli...