Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline personality disorder is a mental health disorder that impacts the way you think and feel about yourself and others, causing problems functioning in everyday life. It includes self-image issues, difficulty managing emotions and behavior, and a pattern of unstable relationships.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W026
Diagnosis: Borderline Personality Disorder
US Patients: 1.6% in a year
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: M;F3
Age Onset: 18
Brain Area: frontolimbic neurons; hippocampus; orbitofrontal cortex; amygdala; dopamine
Symptoms: unstable relationships, strong emotional reactions, self-harm; paranoia
Progression: fear rejection and abandonment; highly impulsive, self-harm by cutting
Causes: child abuse; ptsd; heritability-50%;smaller amygdala, hippocampus – smaller; dopamine and estrogen involved
Medications: None help, but antipsychotics may reduce suicidal intentions; mood stabilizers may avert suicides.
Therapies: CBT helped 50% with personal relationships but lower percentages with vocational situations.
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Support Group: nami.org; 800-950-6264
(National Alliance on Mental Illness)
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4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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The world-wide medical research
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- Severity in the ICD-11 personality disorder model: Evaluation in a Spanish mixed sampleby Fernando Gutiérrez on January 26, 2023
Severity is the main component of the ICD-11 personality disorder (PD) classification, but pertinent instruments have only recently been developed. We analyzed the psychometric properties of the ICD-11 Personality Disorder Severity scale (PDS-ICD-11) in a mixed sample of 726 community and clinical subjects. We also examined how the different components of the ICD-11 PD system -five trait domains, the borderline pattern specifier, and severity, all of them measured through self-reports- are...
- Changes in Attachment Representation and Personality Organization in Transference-Focused Psychotherapyby Diana Diamond on January 25, 2023
CONCLUSIONS: These findings highlight the centrality of identity diffusion to borderline personality disorder pathology and the importance of targeting it in treatment. Furthermore, the results suggest that identity may be indexed by measures of attachment security, narrative coherence, and personality organization.
- An Integrated Developmental Approach to Personality Disorders in Adolescence: Expanding Kernberg's Object Relations Theoryby Lina Normandin on January 25, 2023
This article is a tribute to Dr. Otto F. Kernberg and his contribution to the theoretical understanding of personality pathology in adolescence. In his object relations theory of the structure of personality, an integrated identity is considered central to healthy personality functioning and is contrasted with identity diffusion, which is posited to underlie the maladaptive interpersonal functioning of patients with severe personality disorders. His work provided an early theoretical foundation...
- Media coverage of Belgium's first criminal case concerning euthanasia for psychiatric patients: A content analysis of Flemish newspapers and magazinesby Marc De Hert on January 23, 2023
CONCLUSION: Although major Flemish newspapers and magazines generally were neutral in their coverage of the judicial case, major points of contention discussed were: the need for an evaluation and possible amendments to the existing Euthanasia Law, including a revision of the Belgian Control Commission and the system of penalties for physicians, and the absence of any consensus or guidance on how to define psychological suffering.