What pharmacologic therapy, if any, do you recommend for treatment of borderline personality disorder?  

Given the mood instability in patients with bipolar disorder, I thought it would be a rational option to a trial of a mood stabilizer. I explained my thinking and each agreed. So far, with a very small number of patients, the results have been excellent. I start with a small dose, and slowly and gr...

Lamictal seems to help a fair bit. It seems to decrease anxiety a little and lessen mood swings, plus it helps depression to a degree. As mentioned above, sometimes there can be co-occurring bipolar II and borderline pathology.  In these cases, I have found Lamictal to be very helpful and it d...

AED (Depakote, Trileptal, etc.) with low-dose antipsychotic if needed.