Borderline personality disorder
About 1.6% of people have BPD in a given year, with some estimates as high as 6%. Women are diagnosed about three times as often as men. Up to half of those with B PD improve over a ten-year period.
About Borderline personality disorder in brief
Borderline personality disorder is a mental illness characterized by a long-term pattern of unstable relationships, distorted sense of self, and strong emotional reactions. Symptoms of BPD may be triggered by events considered normal to others. Substance abuse, depression, and eating disorders are commonly associated with BPD. BPD is typically treated with therapy, such as cognitive behavioral therapy or dialectical behavior therapy. DBT may reduce the risk of suicide in the disorder. About 1.6% of people have BPD in a given year, with some estimates as high as 6%. Women are diagnosed about three times as often as men. The disorder appears to become less common among older people. Up to half of those with B PD improve over a ten-year period. Those affected with the disorder typically use a high amount of healthcare resources. The condition must be differentiated from an identity problem or substance use disorders, among other possibilities. The diagnosis is strongly associated with a combination of three specific states: feeling betrayed, out of control, and feeling like I’m hurting myself. People with BPI can be very sensitive to the way others treat them, and treat them by feeling intense joy and gratitude at perceived expressions of kindness and kindness. While people with BHD feel euphoria, they are especially prone to dysphoria, depression andor feelings of mental and emotional distress. People are often aware of the intensity of their negative emotional reactions and, since they cannot regulate them, shut them down entirely since awareness would only cause further distress. This can be harmful since negative emotions alert people to the presence of a problematic situation and move them to address it.
In addition to intense emotions, BPD experience rapid changes in mood swings in people with more frequently involve anxiety and fluctuations between anger and anxiety. The underlying mechanism appears to involve the frontolimbic network of neurons. Although that term suggests rapid changes between depression and elation, it is actually a term used to refer to rapid changes of moods and feelings of dysphoria, which can be more severe than depression or anxiety. It can be helpful to use the term “dysphoria” to describe the different types of emotional distress that BPD people can experience. The term “depression” is also used to describe a more severe form of the condition, which includes feelings of extreme emotions, extreme destructiveness, feeling fragmented or lacking identity, or feelings of victimization, and self-loathing. The most distinguishing symptoms of B PD are marked sensitivity to minor rejection or criticism. People who suffer from BPD are often exceptionally enthusiastic, idealistic, joyful, and loving, but may feel overwhelmed by negative emotions, experiencing intense grief instead of sadness, shame and humiliation instead of mild embarrassment, rage instead of annoyance, and panic instead of nervousness. The symptoms may also include feeling unsure of one’s personal identity, morals, and values; having paranoid thoughts when feeling stressed; depersonalization; and, in moderate to severe cases, stress-induced breaks with reality or psychotic episodes.
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