How to Diagnose and Treat Borderline Personality Disorder

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Determine if the individual has five or more of the following symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder: frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image impulsiveness in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g.

   This mostly happens in times of severe stress.)
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   Step 2: spending

   Although BPD is difficult to treat, long-term treatment can result in significant improvement and can immensely improve the quality of your life. , Professional counseling can be provided by a:
   Psychiatrist.
   
   Psychologist.
   
   Licensed mental health counselor who has special training in treating borderline personality disorder.
   
   Social worker who has special training in treating borderline personality disorder., COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (CBT), which focuses on changing certain thoughts and behavior patterns to control the symptoms of a condition.
   
   DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY, which helps reduce destructive behaviors by teaching healthy ways to adapt to and cope with challenges and feelings of frustration or lack of power.
   
   PSYCHODYNAMIC THERAPY, which focuses on uncovering or understanding your past to gain insight into your actions and current behavior.
   
   This technique assumes that problems with behavior are caused by internal conflicts that you are not consciously aware of.
   
   FAMILY THERAPY, which can help educate your family about your condition and provide support to you and to those who care about you and are affected by your condition.
   
   For example, it is sometimes difficult for a parent with borderline personality disorder to be nurturing, even to his or her own child.
   
   SUPPORT GROUPS, where you and people you care about are able to meet others who share similar challenges., It can be prescribed by your:
   Psychiatrist (who can also diagnose mental health conditions).
   
   Internist.
   
   Family medicine physician.
   
   General practitioner.
   
   Physician assistant.
   
   Nurse practitioner.
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   Step 3: substance abuse

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   Step 4: reckless driving

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   Step 5: binge eating

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   Step 6: cutting) recurrent suicidal behavior

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   Step 7: gestures

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   Step 8: or threats

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   Step 9: or self-mutilating behavior affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (extreme changes in mood typically lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days) chronic feelings of emptiness inappropriate

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    Step 10: intense anger or difficulty controlling anger transient

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    Step 11: stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms (This means feeling "out of it

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    Step 12: " or not being able to remember what you said or did.

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    Step 13: Know that

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    Step 14: if five or more symptoms have been determined

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    Step 15: there is treatment.There is hope.

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    Step 16: See one or more of these people.

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    Step 17: Know the different types of counseling commonly used to treat the disorder.

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    Step 18: Consider medicine therapy along with professional counseling.

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