Borderline personality disorder is a mental health condition that severely impact individual’s ability to regulate their emotions. This loss of emotional control can leads to impulsivity and affect how a person feels about themselves, that negatively impact their subjective emotional experience, relationships with others and adjustment with real life time environment.
Individual with borderline personality disorder may experience intense mood swings and feel uncertainty about how they see themselves. Their feelings for others can change quickly, and swing from extreme closeness to extreme dislike. These changing feelings can lead to unstable relationships and emotional pain. Individual with borderline personality disorder also tend to view things in extremes, such as all good or all bad. Their interests and values can change quickly, and they may act impulsively or recklessly, that sometime leads to self harm as well.
Other signs or symptoms of BPD are…
- Efforts to avoid real or perceived abandonment, such as plunging headfirst into relationships—or ending them just as quickly.
- A pattern of intense and unstable relationships with family, friends, and loved ones.
- A distorted and unstable self-image or sense of self.
- Impulsive and often dangerous behaviors, such as spending sprees, unsafe sex with multiple partner, substance abuse, reckless driving, and binge eating. Please note: If these behaviors happen mostly during times of elevated mood or energy, they may be symptoms of a mood disorder and not borderline personality disorder.
- Self-harming behavior, such as cutting.
- Recurring thoughts of suicidal behaviors or threats.
- Intense and highly variable moods, with episodes lasting from a few hours to a few days.
- Chronic feelings of emptiness.
- Inappropriate, intense anger or problems controlling anger.
- Feelings of dissociation, such as feeling cut off from oneself, observing oneself from outside one’s body, or feelings of unreality.
Not everyone with borderline personality disorder may experience all of these symptoms. The severity, frequency, and duration of symptoms depend on the person and their illness. Individual with borderline personality disorder have a significantly higher rate of self-harming and suicidal behavior than the general population.
Borderline personality disorder is usually diagnosed in late adolescence or early adulthood. Occasionally, a person younger than age 18 may be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder if symptoms are significant and last for a year.
Treatment
Effective treatment modules are available to manage the symptoms of borderline personality disorder. Sometime we need to start treatment with pharmacological and psychological intervention parallelly. And some time independently psychological intervention shows the good result for the treatment of borderline personality disorder. And studies suggests long term regular follow-up of the individual therapy help the individuals to remain healthy and live effectively. If someone is suffering with BPD, they can take professional help for diagnosis and individual therapy.
Seek and Stick With Treatment.
LA is providing Free *psychological assessment for screening for borderline personality disorder, and offering personalized psychotherapy (CBT, DBT, Mindfulness and holistic approach of psychotherapy).
If you or someone you know is in immediate distress or is thinking about hurting themselves, let them inform and contact us. People with borderline personality disorder who are thinking of harming themselves or attempting suicide need help right away.
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