Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

One of the primary disorders of the personality is borderline personality disorder or BPD. The core symptom in the syndrome known as BPD is emotional dysregulation. Emotional dysregulation is viewed as a joint outcome of biological disposition, environmental context, and the transaction between the two during development. Borderline individuals have difficulties in regulating several, if not all, emotions. This systemic dysregulation is produced by emotional vulnerability and by maladaptive and inadequate emotion modulation strategies (Linehan, 1993).

The symptoms of borderline patients are similar to those for which most people seek psychiatric help: depression, mood swings, the use and abuse of drug

The creation of dramatic or engaging in promiscuity may also occur under these circumstances, again often accompanied by the disinhibiting influence of alcohol. A second major type of reaction against the experience of aloneness is a prolonged dissociative episode of either the depersonalization or derealization types. These are designed to detach the borderline person from either the reality of bodily distress or the reality of the environmental situation that evokes that intolerable distress. It is amazing really that the person can create a belief system and complex behaviors as survival tools to avoid the feeling of abandonment which is felt to be unbearable.

The anger is modified to assuage fears of losing the object that may indeed be eminent. This loss occurs in reality and also in the internal object, that is the mental representation. The anger demonstrates the wish to maintain a hold on the person. Failing this, the patient can attempt to deny the fear of loss by dismissing the felt need for the object (i.e., devaluation) or attempt to prevent loss by dramatizing the object need.

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