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

Walking a Difficult Line Taking a Look at Borderline nature DisorderIndividuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) live a difficult existence. These are people for whom maintaining prescript interpersonal relationships, controlling anger, suffer from native self-doubt and drastic mode swings, among other(a) symptoms. They comprise only 2% of the population, but have a disorder which the psychiatric and scientific communities have trouble acknowledging, and great worry treating. (4) Individuals suffering from BPD suffer a range of symptoms which include the following melodramatic mood changes, depression, irritability, uncontrollable anger, negative impulsiveness (which includes reckless sex, substance abuse, binging), suicidal feelings, self-mutilation, extreme self-doubt about ones capabilities. (6)(3) They also experience a kind of heightened awareness of their environment and thus are overly randy by it. (1) In addition to these and other symptoms, individuals with BPD often suffer from other mental disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders as well, reservation their BPD difficult to diagnose. (4) There is a great mystery surrounding the hastens of tout ensemble mental disorders, and this is also the case with BPD. Psychologists and scientists believe that it is both a biologic and psychological disease, and that BPD as an illness is closely related to depression much 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) some people suffering from BPD experience very strong feelings of abandonment by parents, family and friends, that can be triggered by an inci... ...line look for.org/4) National Institute of Mental Health, BPD member Raising Questions, Finding Answershttp//www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bpd.cfm5) National Institute of Mental Health , BPD hold Concept for Borderline Per sonality Disorder Initiative in FY 2003 research initiativehttp//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.htmMore 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