Borderline Personality Disorder Mallory and Sonia

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?

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?

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.”

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……

Causes Environmental factor: one’s childhood experience Marsha Linehan: “BPD is caused by an interaction between biological factors and an "emotionally invalidating" childhood environment. ”

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

Treatments Psychotherapy: help patients cope with their illness Medication: low doses of antipsychotic drugs Self-help: encourage patients to gain additional social support