Borderline Personality Disorder

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Borderline Personality Disorder

• Conor Riordan
• Alicia Mannino
• Victoria Hart

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Definition of a Personality Disorder

• Chronic and severe disturbances that
  substantially inhibit the capacity to love and to
  work
• Examples of personality disorders
• Paranoid
• Schizoid
• Schizotypal
• Antisocial
• Borderline
• Histronic
• Narcissistic
• Avoidant
• Dependent
• Obsessive compulsive

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Definition of Borderline Personality Disorder

• BPD is a mental illness that is characterized by
  the instability of moods, relationships,
  self-image and behavior
• Disorder of emotions and how to regulate them
• Feeling of Black and white
• Self mutilating behavior
• Wrist slashing, carving words on the arm, or
  burning the skin with cigarettes

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Causes and Influences

• Traumatic childhood
• Failure to develop in adolescence
• separation
• A vulnerable temperament
• Neglect
• Series of traumatic events that trigger the
  disorder

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Statistics

• 2 of adults have this disorder
• Most of the 2 is young women
• Close to 10 of patients with the disorder commit
  suicide
• Between 10 and 30 of people who commit suicide
  carry the diagnosis
• Forty to 71 of BPD have reported to being
  sexually abused

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Symptoms

• Chronic feelings of emptiness
• Impulsive aggression
• Reoccurring suicidal behavior
• Impulsivity in at least two areas that are
  potentially self-damaging
• Spending
• Sex
• substance abuse
• reckless driving
• binge eating
• Wreck-less self image
• Unstable relationships
• Social
• Personal

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Diagnosis

• There is no test or biochemical exam that can
  diagnose BPD. However, there is a set of
  guidelines one can follow to recognize the signs
  of BPD
• Repeated attempts of suicide
• Frantic efforts to avoid being alone due to fear
  of abandonment
• Long periods of anxiety
• Anger that is uncontrollable
• Doubting your sexual identity
• Damaged self-image
• Relationship problems
• He/She is my world, I cant live without them.
• They are awfulI hate them, how can they do this
  to me.

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Relationships

• People and relationships are strongly affected by
  their mood and they are often one sided
• They particularly split their representation of
  the people and/or relationships, generally, to
  all good or all bad- meaning people are
  either on their side or they are out to get them.
• They will often alternate their mood and they
  will change from one feeling to another (all
  good to all bad)

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Identity

• Clinging to damaged relationships
• Terror of being left alone
• Always feeling empty
• Confusion
• Feelings that their thoughts are trapping them
  from reality
• Addictive personality

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Treatment

• Group/Individual psychotherapy
• Hospitalization
• Low doses of antipsychotic drugs
• Antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications may
  be appropriate in a given time during a persons
  recovery

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BPD v. Bi-PolarWhat belongs where?

• Dramatic mood with normal moods in between
• Series of highs and lows called episodes
• Extreme irritability
• Increased energy, activity, and restlessness
• Denial of disorder
• Abuse of drugs (cocaine, alcohol, and sleeping
  medication
• Distractibility
• Racing thoughts, talking very fast, and jumping
  from different idea

• Unstable/intense interpersonal relationships
• Inappropriate, intense anger and difficulty
  controlling anger
• Constant feeling of anger
• Denial of real or imagined abandonment
• Reoccurring suicidal behavior
• Self mutilating behavior

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Videos

• BPD and me
• BPD and me continued-happiness

• These videos are based on the life of a woman
  named Jan. She suffers from BPD. These videos are
  based on her thoughts and lifestyle. Both of
  these videos show the dual personalities dealing
  with BPD.

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Conclusion

• Borderline Personality Disorder is a real disease
  that affects people from all around the world.
• BPD can be tamed with treatment and tends to
  decrease with age
• If you feel that you have any of these symptoms,
  please call 1.800.656.HOPE