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Borderline Personality Disorder
Mallory and Sonia
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Test
1. When your close friend unexpectedly calls off a meeting with you, would you bear an immediate hatred for her/him?
2. Do you have difficulties tolerating
loneliness?
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Test
• 3. Feel insecure with relationships with
others.
• 4. Do you have dramatic mood from
happiness to melancholy?
• 5. Do you have tendency of self-injuries?
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Borderline Personality Disorder:
• Psych Central: “a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity that begins by early adulthood and is present in a variety of contexts.”
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Symptoms:
• unstable interpersonal relationships• identity disturbance • emotional instability• chronic feelings of emptiness• tendency to commit suicide
If we put the symptoms into the daily lives……
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Causes
• Environmental factor:
one’s childhood experience
Marsha Linehan: “BPD is caused by an interaction between biological factors and an "emotionally invalidating" childhood environment. ”
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• Biological and genetic causes:
1. serotonin (a natural chemical in the brain)
2.have more activation of the limbic system, an area in the brain that controls fear, anger, and aggression
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Treatments
• Psychotherapy:
help patients cope with their illness
• Medication:
low doses of antipsychotic drugs
• Self-help:
encourage patients to gain additional social support