Walking a Difficult Line: Taking a Look at Borderline Personality Disor

Walking a Difficult Line Taking a Look at borderline Personality DisorderIndividuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) live a difficult existence. These are people for whom maintaining normal interpersonal relationships, controlling anger, suffer from extreme self-doubt and drastic toughness swings, among other symptoms. They comprise only 2% of the population, but have a disorder which the psychiatric and scientific communities have trouble acknowledging, and bulky difficulty treating. (4) Individuals miserable from BPD suffer a range of symptoms which include the following dramatic mood changes, depression, irritability, uncontrollable anger, negative impulsiveness (which includes reckless sex, substance abuse, binging), suicidal feelings, self-mutilation, extreme self-doubt rough ones capabilities. (6)(3) They also experience a kind of heightened awareness of their environment and thus are overly stimulated by it. (1) In attachment to these and other symptoms, indiv iduals with BPD often suffer from other mental disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders as well, making their BPD difficult to diagnose. (4) There is a great mystery surrounding the causes of all mental disorders, and this is also the case with BPD. Psychologists and scientists believe that it is both a biological and psychological disease, and that BPD as an illness is closely connect to depression more than schizophrenia, which had been the previous though. Experts have also believe that attention-deficit disorders could be a cause factor, as well as childhood abuse or neglect. (6) Many people suffering from BPD experience very strong feelings of abandonment by parents, family and friends, that can be triggered by an inci... ...lineresearch.org/4) National Institute of Mental Health, BPD condition Raising Questions, Finding Answershttp//www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bpd.cfm5) National Institute of Mental Health , BPD article Concept for Borderline Persona lity Disorder Initiative in FY 2003 research portahttp//www.nimh.nih.gov/council/cncptcuthbert_901.cfm6) National Alliance for the Mentally Ill site on BPD http//www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=By_Illness&Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=54&ContentID=230407) Dr. Linehans DBT course of treatment (A Promising Treatment...)http//www.mclean.harvard.edu/psychupdate/psyupI-3.htm more Information8) More basic information on BPD http//www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?id=476&type=doc&cn=Personality%20Disorders9) More information on DBT (treatment)http//www.priory.com/dbt.htm