Borderline Personality Disorder
ANSWERS
A mental health condition called borderline personality disorder affects how you think and feel about yourself and others, making it difficult to function in daily life. Issues with self-image, trouble controlling one’s emotions and conduct, and history of rocky relationships are all included.
When you have a borderline personality disorder, you may find it difficult to tolerate being alone and have a severe fear of abandonment or instability. Even if you desire to build enduring and meaningful connections, improper anger, impulsivity, and frequent mood swings may drive people away.
Usually, by early adulthood, borderline personality disorder manifests itself. Young adulthood seems to be when the problem worsens, and it may improve as people age.
Do not give up if you have a borderline personality disorder. With treatment, many persons with this disease become better over time and can learn to lead fulfilling lives.
Symptoms
Your perception of yourself, how you interact with others, and how you behave are all impacted by borderline personality disorder.
Some warning signs and symptoms include:
Excessive fear of being abandoned, even to the point of taking drastic efforts to prevent actual or imagined rejection or separation
A pattern of erratic, intense connections, such as abruptly idealizing someone yet thinking they do not care enough or are harsh the next moment
Rapid shifts in aims and values, as well as a negative or nonexistent perception of oneself in one’s identity and self-image
Stress-related paranoia and periods of disconnection from reality that might last for a few minutes to a few hours.
Impulsive and dangerous actions, such as reckless driving, risky sex, shopping binges, binge eating, abusing drugs, or sabotaging achievement by abruptly leaving a successful job or ending a satisfying relationship
Suicidal threats, actions, or self-harm, frequently brought on by a fear of being abandoned or rejected
Wide mood swings that might last anywhere from a few hours to a few days and include extreme joy, irritation, guilt, or worry
sensations of emptiness that persist
Extremely inappropriate anger that manifests as a lot of temper tantrums, sarcasm, or violent altercations
QUESTION
Borderline Personality Disorder
Briefly explain what a therapeutic relationship is in psychiatry. Explain how you would share the diagnosis of Borderline personality disorder with the client in order to avoid damaging the therapeutic relationship. Compare the differences in how you would share Borderline personality disorde with an individual, a family, and in a group session .