Borderline Emotions
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a disorder of the emotions. It is also called Emotionally unstable Personality Disorder or EUPD. BPD is the most common type of personality.
BPD produces fear of abandonment
that is sometimes real and sometimes imaginary.
Many with BPD have intense personal relationships with lots of conflict. Seeing the other person as all good or all bad is also called black and white thinking patterns.
Borderline Personality Disorder patients feel very unsure about one's identity and lack a sense of personhood or nonexistence. They feel empty, almost like being in a big dark hole!
Borderline Personality Disorder patients some times experience something called disassociation. It is a sense of being out of your own body. Like you are talking and you can hear yourself like you're not in your own body. very different than a hallucination. Sometimes it is worse when under stress. BPD is
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1 in 5 people admitted to psychiatric hospital have BPD
1 in 10 people seeking outpatient mental health treatment have BPD
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BPD is most stigmatized and misunderstood. It is misunderstood even among health care proffesionals.
BPD can co-exist with other conditions. Example :
anxiety, depression, eating disorders, substance abuse/ addiction, bipolar disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
It is a long term condition but can be improved with medication and long term Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
