BPD borderline personality disorder? What do you know about it?

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Answer 1

BPD is a prevalent disorder that is severe, chronic, and persistent. While a person with depression or bipolar disorder typically endures the same mood for weeks, a person with BPD may experience intense bouts of anger, depression, and anxiety that may last only hours, or at most a day.5 These may be associated with episodes of impulsive aggression, self-injury, and drug or alcohol abuse. Distortions in cognition and sense of self can lead to frequent changes in long-term goals, career plans, jobs, friendships, gender identity, and values. Sometimes people with BPD view themselves as fundamentally bad, or unworthy. They may feel unfairly misunderstood or mistreated, bored, empty, and have little idea who they are. Such symptoms are most acute when people with BPD feel isolated and lacking in social support, and may result in frantic efforts to avoid being alone.

What seems to be the most effective treatment for BPD is DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy). DBT assumes the problems of BPD individuals are twofold. First, they do not have many very important capabilities, including sufficient interpersonal skills, emotional and self regulation capacities (including the ability to self regulate biological systems) and the ability to tolerate distress. Second, personal and environmental factors block coping skills and interfere with self regulation abilities the individual does have, often reinforce maladaptive behavioral patterns, and punish improved adaptive behaviors.

Helping the BPD individual make therapeutic changes is extraordinarily difficult, however, for at least two reasons. First, focusing on patient change, either of motivation or by teaching new behavioral skills, is often experienced as invalidating by traumatized individuals and can precipitate withdrawal, noncompliance, and early drop out from treatment, on the one hand, or anger, aggression, and attack, on the other. Second, ignoring the need for the patient to change (and thereby, not promoting needed change) is also experienced as invalidating. Such a stance does not take the very real problems and negative consequences of patient behavior seriously and can, in turn, precipitate panic, hopelessness and suicidality.

If you or someone you know is struggling w/ BPD, get help. There are effective ways to help the person find some relief!

http://www.dbtselfhelp.com/index.html

Links to good articles about DBT and BPD:
http://www.dbtselfhelp.com/html/articles.html

Answer 2

I have met a few people with this disorder through my job. They are people with a tendency to overeact to percieved rejection and self harm allot of the time. Very difficult to say if it is biological inherited. Have you had this diagnosis? Psychiatric med will help as will counselling and coping strategies.

Answer 3

here babe, go here. Its my friends blog. She has bpd & has some writings on it, shes a very smart girl. I do believe she can offer you some useful links if you leave a comment on her page asking her so.
Best of luck.
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