How to Identify Bordeline Personality Disorder?

Bordeline Personality Disorder (BPD) also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD) is a type of personality disorder.

What are the symptoms ?

If you experience at least five symptoms of the following and they’ve lasted for long time or have impact on your daily life:

• You feel very worried about people abandoning you,
• You have very intense emotions that last from a few hours to a few days and can change quickly (for example, from feeling very happy and confident to suddenly feeling low and sad).
• You don’t have a strong sense of who you are, and it can change significantly depending on who you’re with.
• You find it very hard to make and keep stable relationships.
• You feel empty a lot of the time.
• You act impulsively and do things that could harm you (such as binge eating, using drugs or driving dangerously).
• You often self-harm or have sucidale feeling.
• You have very intense feelings of anger, which are really difficult to control.
• When very stressed, you may also experience paranoia or dissociation.

Where to Get Diagnosed?

You can also do an free online BPD test  but it is also important to see your GP to have an accurate certification of your diagnosed.

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5 types of Bordeline Personality Disorder

• Discouraged borderline personality disorder : Discouraged borderline is marked .noticeable clinginess and a passive “follower” type of mentality

• Impulsive borderline personality disorder: If you’ve ever struggled with impulsivity due to BPD. Instead of losing control of your emotions, it’s losing control of your behavior.

• Petulant borderline: Most petulant BPD behaviors stem from a fear of abandonment, lack of self-worth, and an inability to self-soothe.

• Self-destructive borderline Self-destructive behavior is when you do something that’s sure to cause self-harm, whether it’s emotional or physical. Some self-destructive behavior is more obvious, such as: attempting suicide. … impulsive and risky sexual behavior. overusing alcohol and drugs.

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Psychotherapy

Treatment for BPD usually involves some type of psychological therapy, also known as psychotherapy. There are lots of different types of psychotherapy, but they all involve taking time to help you get a better understanding of how you think and feel.

Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)

• You are particularly emotionally vulnerablef for example, low levels of stress make you feel extremely anxious
• You grew up in an environment where your emotions were dismissed by those around you – for example, a parent may have told you that you had no right to feel sad or you were just “being silly” if you complained of feelings of anxiety or stress

Mentalisation-based therapy (MBT)

MBT is based on the concept that people with BPD have a poor capacity to mentalise

Mentalisation is the ability to think about thinking. This means examining your own thoughts and beliefs, and assessing whether they’re useful, realistic and based on reality.

For example, many people with BPD will have a sudden urge to self-harm and then fulfil that urge without questioning it. They lack the ability to “step back” from that urge and say to themselves: “That’s not a healthy way of thinking and I’m only thinking this way because I’m upset.”

Reading Books

Reading books is always an good idea as an self-awarness. Here is the link to some great buy books and articles recomendation

Source : www.mind.org.uk   https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health

Author by Agathe Sellier