anybody know anything about borderline personality disorder?
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A personality disorder, in general, means that you have an enduring pattern of impulse control and maladaptive (much different from everyone else) cognition, affective, interpersonal functioning. Meaning that you have a different way of perceiving yourself and the world, your emotions may be more intense or unpredictable, you may have difficulty with relationships, and impulse control problems. The pattern is inflexible and pervasive accords most situations and environments. The pattern causes clinically significant distress and impairment in daily living. The pattern is long and stable, starting with young adulthood (although personality disorders cannot be diagnosed until after 18). Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in particular means that your pattern includes unstable relationships, impulsivity, and problems with self-image and emotion. You may engage in several behaviors or experience different emotions, including:
* Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
* Pattern of unstable and intense relationships
* Identity disturbance and unstable self-image
* Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (spending, sex, reckless driving, etc)
* Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior
* Emotional instability
* Chronic feelings of emptiness
* Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger
* Occasional stress-related paranoia or dissociative symptoms
Of the people with Borderline Personality Disorder that I have met and worked with, I have noticed a couple of other behaviors, not included above, such as attention-seeking, catastrophizing, self-sustaining depression, and drug/alcohol abuse.
Personality Disorders are rarely diagnosed alone, usually there is also depression, bipolar, anxiety, or psychotic disorders present. Medication doesn't really help with BPD, because it is due to how you perceive and behave. If medication is prescribed, it is for the disorders listed above.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is designed specifically for the treatment of BPD.
"Clients receiving DBT were significantly less likely to drop out of therapy, were significantly less likely to engage in parasuicide, reported significantly fewer parasuicial behaviors and, when engaging in parasuicidal behaviors, had less medically severe behaviors. Further, clients receiving DBT were less likely to be hospitalized, had fewer days in hospital, and had higher scores on global and social adjustment." (reference below)
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It is one of the most controversial diagnoses in psychology today...
Check these websites!
http://www.palace.net/~llama/psych/bpd.html
http://www.psycom.net/depression.central.borderline.html
http://www.stanford.edu/~corelli/borderline.html
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