Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Resources

Find helpful resources for understanding and managing BPD, including an online test, helplines, treatment and therapy services, information and support, networks, apps, podcasts, TED Talks, and books.

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Online BPD Test

While only a medical professional can accurately give a diagnosis, the internet has made it easy to take online screenings that can help give you a better idea of whether or not you have a borderline personality disorder.

Helplines

In the U.S.: Call the NAMI HelpLine at 1-800-950-6264
UK: Call the the Mind infoline at 0300 123 3393
Australia: Call the Sane Helpline at 1800 187 263
Canada: Find Your CMHA for a helpline near you

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Support Groups

Online BPD Support Groups

“Emotions Matter” offers BPD Peer Online Support Group Program. Register for a peer support group.
The Super Feelers Club: Offers free virtual peer support for people with BPD or intense emotions. They also run a peer-led Skills Lab where participants practice DBT skills together.
Family Connections – Sashbear Foundation: A free online program for family members and friends of someone experiencing BPD or serious emotion dysregulation. The program combines peer support, education, communication strategies, and DBT-based skills.
BorderMinds: An online peer community for adults with BPD, BPD traits, or a BPD diagnosis. Meetings include peer discussions and DBT skills practice, although some sessions require a small fee.

In-Person BPD Support Groups

Psychology Today BPD Support Group Directory: Search by location for therapist-led BPD and DBT groups in your area. Listings may include both in-person therapy groups and online groups, so check each group’s format before joining.
“Society of BC” offers borderline personality disorder in-erson peer support group in Canada (Victoria, Nanaimo, Vancouver, New Westminster)
Meetup BPD Groups: Meetup can help you find local BPD peer communities, discussion groups, and DBT-related groups. Availability depends on your city, and groups vary in whether they are peer-led or professionally facilitated.

Apps

Moodfit (Android/iphone): a free mental health app whose tools and insight are meant to “shape up” your mood. Moodfit also helps you learn new skills, like gratitude and mindfulness, in just a few minutes per day.

MoodMission (Android/iphone): the app helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, or depression. It recommends “missions” based on how the user is feeling. These missions include:

Emotion-based activities like breathing exercises
Behavior-based activities like learning how to knit, crochet, or sew
Physical activities such as push-ups
Thought-based activities such as learning how to reframe negative thoughts

Headspace (Android/iphone): a meditation app that can help you learn how to live mindfully with a variety of themed sessions on everything from stress and sleep to focus and anxiety.

Happify (Android/iphone): a fun app that will keep you engaged while also boosting your mood. The games in the app are science-based activities meant to reduce stress, build resilience, and overcome negative thoughts.

Breathwrk (iphone): The app presents a collection of breathing exercises based on your goal: falling asleep, feeling relaxed, feeling energized, and alleviating stress.

BPD Podcasts

From Borderline to Beautiful: Hope and Help for BPD — Rose Skeeters
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One of the most established podcasts specifically about BPD. Therapist Rose Skeeters discusses abandonment fears, unstable relationships, emotional reactions, shame, identity, recovery, and practical strategies for changing destructive patterns. It remains active in 2026.
The BPD Bunch
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A weekly show featuring people who describe themselves as being in functional recovery from BPD. Episodes cover impulsivity, relationships, anger, abandonment fears, identity, splitting, self-care, DBT skills, and what recovery looks like in everyday life.
DBT and Me — Michelle Henderson and Kate Sherman
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Hosted by two therapists who teach DBT. The podcast breaks DBT skills into practical everyday examples covering emotion regulation, distress tolerance, relationships, boundaries, impulsive reactions, and difficult thoughts. It remains active in 2026.
BPD Alliance, The Podcast
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A newer 2026 podcast bringing together BPD researchers, clinicians, people with lived experience, and family members. It focuses on reducing stigma while discussing diagnosis, treatment, relationships, family support, and chronic emotional dysregulation.
To Hell and Back — Charlie Swenson, MD
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Psychiatrist and DBT expert Dr. Charlie Swenson teaches DBT concepts through explanations, conversations, and practical examples. Episodes cover intense emotions, impulsive behavior, relationships, acceptance, behavioral change, and building a life worth living.

What Is Borderline Personality Disorder? — Speaking of Psychology
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BPD researcher Dr. Carla Sharp explains what BPD actually is, how it is diagnosed, common misconceptions, why symptoms develop, available treatments, and how family members can help.
Fear Is a Mile Wide and an Inch Deep: BPD Recovery — From Borderline to Beautiful
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Explores fear in BPD recovery, including abandonment fears, avoidance, safety behaviors, and how repeatedly acting from fear can keep unhealthy patterns going.

TED & TEDx Talks About BPD

Borderline Talks Back — Coral More
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One of the most directly relevant TEDx talks on BPD. Coral More combines personal experience with psychology to examine BPD stigma, stereotypes, the way personality disorders are understood, and what it is like to live with a heavily stigmatized diagnosis.
How Our Prejudices Can Hold Us Back — Cecilie Mai Sommer
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Cecilie Mai Sommer discusses her experiences with BPD, OCD, and anxiety and how stereotypes about mental illness can prevent people from recognizing their own difficulties or seeking appropriate help.
Vulnerability Is Your Superpower — Sanisha Wynter
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Sanisha Wynter discusses living with BPD alongside experiences of isolation and discrimination. The talk focuses on identity, vulnerability, belonging, and speaking openly about experiences that are often hidden.
DBT, A Helpful Key to Recovery — Alexa Kitay
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Introduces Dialectical Behavior Therapy through personal experience and explains how DBT skills can help people respond differently to overwhelming emotions and destructive coping behaviors.

Books

The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook

Sometimes I Act Crazy

I Hate You–Don’t Leave Me

Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder

Treatment and Therapy Services

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Alternative Options – an outpatient treatment center that provides comprehensive, structured treatment for people struggling with mental health, substance abuse and eating disorders, and offers support for their families and significant others in a caring therapeutic environment.

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