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Q. A few months ago, I picked up a book about borderline
personality disorder (BPD). The title, Stop
Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care
About Has Borderline Personality Disorder, caught my
eye, and I was both horrified and relieved to discover that my mother
fit the descriptions and criteria. Remembering back throughout my
life, I could see that all the signs were there... I just never had a
word for my mother's behavior and the turmoil it caused. By the time I
found the book, her erratic and unpleasant behavior seemed to be
escalating, and I was getting desperate.
Then.... within the last month, my mother was in the hospital (chronic heart and lung disease), and her behavior towards the nurses and doctors prompted an evaluation by the Psych. Dept. She was diagnosed with Dementia. Reading about that, I see that some of the symptoms are similar (mood swings, etc.). She's 69 years old, by the way. So now I'm wondering if any connection has ever been made between BPD and Dementia. Could BPD pre-dispose someone to developing dementia in their old age? A. I'm not aware that there are any connections between dementia and bpd. Dementia is primarily an organic deterioration of certain areas of the brain. This deterioration of the brain is primarily responsible for the behavioral and emotional difficulties associated with dementia. BPD's causes are not as well known. Some brain research has suggested that borderline personality disorder symptoms may be linked to some brain factors but this is not well understood. I'm not aware of any research linking these two very different disorders. 
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