During my years as a therapist, I’ve not only worked with the Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) patient, but also their loved ones. While the focus is often on the BPD, the family may suffer in silence. I have listed five suggestions to help those in this type relationship cope with their own life. 1. Learn ...
According to the DSM-IV-TR, psychology’s premier diagnostic manual, Borderline PD is a type of psychological personality disorder that interferes with an individual’s ability to regulate emotion. The characteristic emotional instability results in dramatic and sudden shifts in mood, impulsivity, poor self-image, turbulent relationships, and often threats of and attempts at suicide. Prevalence of Borderline Personality ...
Abandonment issues in people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) are some of the most pervasive and long-lasting conflicts that BPD sufferers deal with. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment is a classic symptom of Borderline Personality Disorder. While you don’t have to have this symptom to have the disorder, I have yet to ...
Borderline personality disorder has unstable roots in terms of its origin. Before concrete diagnostic validity was established, psychoanalysts believed that Borderline personality disorder was a symptom wastebasket. The name derives from the belief that the disorder was a compilation of random symptoms from various mental disorders. It was believed that Borderline Personality Disorder bordered several ...
Being in a relationship or married to a mate who has Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) will be very trying for all involved. The periods of emotional roller coasters that will be experienced throughout your relationship can only make you stronger or break you. Dealing with the emotional ups and downs of a mate with BPD ...
The husband enters the main door of the house coming from work. He drags himself to the recliner in front of the television. The wife yells at the husband “I’m the only one who does anything in this house! Really, nothing gets done around here unless I do it. I need to get out of ...
