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Borderline personality disorder: causes and treatment

 

A borderline personality disorder is a mental health disorder that affects the way you think and feel about yourself and others This leads to problems in daily life tasks.

It includes problems with a person's self-esteem, difficulty controlling feelings and behavior, and frequent disruption of relationships.

Borderline personality

With borderline personality disorder, you have an intense fear of abandonment or instability, and you may find it difficult to tolerate loneliness. 

But intense anger, impulsiveness, and moody moods push others away even though you want to feel loved and have long-lasting relationships.

 

Borderline personality disorder usually begins in early adulthood. The condition seems to get worse in youth and may gradually improve with age.

 

If you have a borderline personality disorder, don't let frustration control you. Many people with this disorder improve with treatment over time and can learn to live a full life.

Symptoms of borderline personality disorder

 

A borderline personality disorder affects how you feel about yourself, how you relate to others and your behavior in general.

 

Signs and symptoms can include:

 

• Fear of abandonment, which can lead you to take violent measures to avoid a real or imagined separation or rejection.

• An unstable pattern of romantic relationships, such as glorifying someone intensely and the next moment believing that they are negligent or cruel.

• Rapid changes in a person's self-image and identity, including changes in values ​​and goals, and the feeling that you are a bad person or that you have no value.

• Episodes of phobias related to stress and loss of connection with reality, lasting from a few minutes to several hours.

• Reckless and impulsive behaviors, such as gambling, reckless driving, unprotected sex, extravagance, partying, drug use, or eliminating your success by leaving a good job or ending a successful relationship.

• Tendency to have suicidal thoughts and behaviors and to self-harm, often as a result of fear of separation or rejection.

• Violent mood swings lasting several hours or several days, characterized by extreme happiness, distress, shame, or anxiety.

• Constant feeling of emptiness Loss of nerves as a result of severe anger and the resulting inappropriate behavior, such as being sarcastic and stern, or getting into a physical fight with someone.

 

When do you visit the doctor?

 

If you know you have any of the symptoms listed above, talk to your doctor or mental health provider.

 

If you have suicidal thoughts.

 

If you have delusions or mental images of harming yourself, or if you have other suicidal thoughts, seek help immediately by doing one of the following:

 

Call 911 or your local emergency number immediately.

Call the Suicide Prevention Hotline. In the United States, call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255) any time of the day. 

Call the same number and press "1" to access the Veterans Crisis Line.

Call your mental health provider, your doctor, or other health care providers.

Call a loved one, a friend, a trusted person, or a co-worker.

Contact someone who believes in your religion.

If you notice signs or symptoms of a family member or friend, talk to that person about seeing a doctor or mental health provider. But you can't force someone to ask for help. If the relationship is causing you a lot of stress, it may help to see a psychologist.

 

the reasons Borderline personality disorder

 

1. Talk to that person about seeing a doctor or mental health
2. In addition to environmental factors, such as the child’s
3. medical history Abuse or neglect, BPD may be related to:
4. Genetic genes. Some studies of twins and families suggest that personality disorders may be inherited or strongly linked to other mental health disorders in family members.
5. Brain diseases. Some studies have shown that certain brain areas are involved in emotion regulation, Impulsive and aggressive. Also, some brain chemicals that help regulate mood, such as serotonin, may not work properly.

 

risk factor's

 

Certain factors related to personality development can increase the risk of developing a borderline personality disorder. They include:

 

genetic predisposition. Your risk for borderline personality disorder increases if one of your closest relatives (your mother, father, brother, or sister) has the same or a similar disorder.

 

Some people have lost their parents or are separated or close.

to their parents Their caregivers when they were young, or a parent or caregiver Drug abuse or other mental health problems. Others were exposed to aggressive problems and troubled family relationships.

Complications

 Borderline personality disorder can damage many areas of your

Life. It can negatively affect intimate relationships, work, school, social activities, and self-image, which can cause:

• Frequent job changes or losses.
• Failure to complete education.
• Many legal problems, such as serving a prison sentence.
• Relationships plagued by conflict, marital stress, or divorce.
• Self-harm, such as cutting or burning and repeated hospitalizations
• Participate in abusive relationships.
• An unexpected pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, cars Accidents, and physical conflicts due to recklessness and risk-taking behavior.
• Suicide attempt or actual suicide.

Also, you may have mental health disorders, such as:

• Depression.
• Excessive use of alcohol or other drugs.
• anxiety disorders.
• eating disorders.
• Bipolar disorder.
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

 

treatment

 

As it is known that borderline personality disorder is treated

primarily with psychotherapy, but medication can also be

used. Your doctor may recommend hospitalization if your safety is at risk.

 

Therapy can help you learn skills to manage and cope with your condition. You also need to treat any of the other mental health disorders that often accompany BPD, such as depression and substance abuse. With treatment, you can feel better and live a more stable and happy life.

 

Psychotherapy

 

Psychotherapy, also called talk therapy, is a primary treatment for borderline personality disorder. Your therapist can adapt the type of treatment that best suits your needs.

The goal of psychotherapy is to help you:

1. Focus on your current ability to perform the functions
2. Learn to control disturbing emotions.
3. Reduce impulsivity by preserving feelings rather than reacting to them.
4. Work to improve relationships by being aware of your feelings and the feelings of others.
5. Knowledge about borderline personality disorder.

The types of psychological treatments that have been found effective include the following:

 

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). Dialectical behavior therapy includes individual and group therapy specifically designed to treat borderline personality disorder.

 Dialectical behavior therapy uses an approach to teach you how to control your emotions, manage stress, and improve relationships.

Schema-based therapy. Scheme-focused therapy can be done individually or in a group. It can help you identify unmet needs that have led to negative lifestyles, which can sometimes be beneficial for survival but, for adults, are detrimental in many aspects of life. 

Treatment focuses on helping you healthily meet your needs to promote positive lifestyles.

 

Mindfulness-Based Therapy (MBT). Mindfulness-based therapy is a type of talk therapy that helps you identify your thoughts and feelings at a given moment and creates an alternative perspective on the situation. Mindfulness-based therapy emphasizes thinking before reacting.

Organizational Training for Emotional Anticipation and Problem Solving (STEPPS).

Organizational Training for Emotional Anticipation and Problem Solving A 20-week treatment that requires working in groups that include your family members, caregivers, friends, or prominent people in your treatment.

 Organizational training is used to anticipate emotions and solve problems, as well as other types of psychotherapy.

 

Transformational Psychotherapy (TFP). Transformational psychotherapy, also known as psychodynamic therapy, aims to help you understand your feelings and the difficulties you have in dealing with people by creating a relationship between you and the therapist. 

Then apply these ideas to ongoing situations.

 

Good psychological management. This treatment approach is based on case management, and treatment has been shown to involve work or school participation.

 It focuses on creating a sense of emotionally difficult moments by considering the personal context of these feelings. You can combine medications, group therapy, family education, and individual therapy.