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Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder. Mallory and Sonia. Test. 1. When your close friend unexpectedly calls off a meeting with you, would you bear an immediate hatred for her/him? 2. Do you have difficulties tolerating loneliness?. Test. 3. Feel insecure with relationships with

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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  1. Borderline Personality Disorder Mallory and Sonia

  2. Test 1. When your close friend unexpectedly calls off a meeting with you, would you bear an immediate hatred for her/him? 2. Do you have difficulties tolerating loneliness?

  3. Test • 3. Feel insecure with relationships with others. • 4. Do you have dramatic mood from happiness to melancholy? • 5. Do you have tendency of self-injuries?

  4. Borderline Personality Disorder: • Psych Central: “a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity that begins by early adulthood and is present in a variety of contexts.”

  5. Symptoms: • unstable interpersonal relationships • identity disturbance • emotional instability • chronic feelings of emptiness • tendency to commit suicide If we put the symptoms into the daily lives……

  6. Causes • Environmental factor: one’s childhood experience Marsha Linehan: “BPD is caused by an interaction between biological factors and an "emotionally invalidating" childhood environment. ”

  7. Biological and genetic causes: 1. serotonin (a natural chemical in the brain) 2.have more activation of the limbic system, an area in the brain that controls fear, anger, and aggression

  8. Treatments • Psychotherapy: help patients cope with their illness • Medication: low doses of antipsychotic drugs • Self-help: encourage patients to gain additional social support

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