Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline personality disorder, it is borderline - it is a position in the course of decompensation between psychotic and non-psychotic condition or during the regression from neurotic to psychotic mental organization.The term was introduced into scientific circulation in 1953.Borderline personality disorder - is, in fact, a descriptive term that includes diffuse manifestations of impulsivity, constant irritability, unstable personal relationships, violations of identity, a sense of boredom, depression.

It is characterized by impulsivity, low self-control, unstable emotionally, lack of a stable connection with reality, a high level of anxiety, de-socialization.One of the key symptoms - self-harm, self-mutilation.Link to unstable relationships, fear of abandonment, impulsivity, erratic mood swings, constant feeling of emptiness, paranoia, loss of connection with reality - if the patient has five attributes listed, it means that he has borderline disorder.

Most often borderline personality disorder in women.Almost always, these patients are in crisis;they are characterized by mood swings.Cases and psychotic episodes, though not in a distinct way.Predicting the behavior of patients with borderline personality disorder almost impossible.They often cause injury to themselves, sometimes quite serious.The objectives can be pursued at the same time very different: to attract attention, express anger and outrage, to force myself to shut up.

Due to the fact that patients with BPD feel dependent on other people and experiencing the hostility of their interpersonal communication is very unstable.They are dependent on those who want to be close, sometimes experiencing intense anger towards them, provided that they are in a state of frustration.People with borderline disorder, can not stand alone, preferring to search for any company, no matter how it meets their conditions.In order to exclude the possibility of finding alone, they can take a stranger for a friend or make questionable relationship.These patients often experience boredom and emptiness, and they have no sense of authenticity that is characteristic of vague entity.

Borderline personality disorder is part of the borderline personality organization.Borderline personality organization characterized by a set of opposing identities that lead to the fact that "I" is not enough to integrate and the lack of authenticity, self-image problems.

Within the traditional psychoanalysis patients with borderline disorder, defined as polinevroticheskie person having structural defects.In order to diagnose borderline personality disorder, a test or an interview is not the best way.Structural tests such as the Wechsler test are inconclusive;have a chance to identify deviations using unstructured tests (Rorschach).It is best to create a psychotherapeutic or analytic situation.In the vast majority of situations, however, classical psychoanalysis does not ameliorate these patients, due to the fact that they prefer the action of reflection, which is the cornerstone of psychoanalysis.In order to cure a borderline personality disorder, it is best to use psychotherapy.Drug treatment is not recommended for the treatment of this particular disease.