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Conditions we treat

Personality Disorders

Personality disorders are long-standing patterns of thinking, feeling and relating to others that cause distress or problems in relationships, work or daily life.

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What it can look like

  • Intense or unstable relationships
  • Strong emotions that are hard to manage
  • Patterns that repeat across many situations
  • Difficulty with self-image or sense of identity
  • Impulsive behavior

Only a qualified clinician can make a diagnosis. Many of these experiences overlap with other conditions.

How we help

Treatment is collaborative and often long-term. Psychotherapy is the foundation of care, and medication may help with specific symptoms such as mood, anxiety or impulsivity.

All care at EKM Psychiatry is delivered by secure telehealth across New York.

Self-check questionnaire

McLean Screening Instrument for Borderline Personality Disorder (MSI-BPD)

Private: your answers stay on your own device. They are scored in your browser and are never sent to EKM Psychiatry or saved. This is a screening tool, not a diagnosis.

Please answer yes or no to each question.

1. Have any of your closest relationships been troubled by a lot of arguments or repeated breakups?
2. Have you deliberately hurt yourself physically (e.g., punched yourself, cut yourself, burned yourself)? Have you attempted suicide?
3. Have you had at least two other problems with impulsivity (e.g., eating binges, spending sprees, promiscuity, drug use, reckless driving)?
4. Have you been extremely moody?
5. Have you felt very angry a lot of the time? Have you often acted in an angry or sarcastic manner?
6. Have you often felt suspicious of other people, or paranoid, for no clear reason?
7. Have you frequently felt unreal, or as if things around you were unreal?
8. Have you chronically felt empty?
9. Have you often felt that you had no idea of who you are, or that you have no identity?
10. Have you made desperate efforts to avoid feeling abandoned or being abandoned (e.g., repeatedly called someone, begged them not to leave)?

MSI-BPD: Zanarini MC, et al. J Pers Disord 2003;17(6):568-73. Free for clinical use.

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If you are in crisis, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or call 911.

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