The article by CBS News named “Borderline Personality disorder 8 dangerous myths” is told by Dr. Shari Manning, who has an applied knowledge of Borderline personality disorder and who has written a book on the disorder. The first myth suggests that people think the disorder is rare but it is, in fact, a common disorder, Dr. Manning states that one out of 50 people has the disorder. The second myth suggests that bad parenting is one of the causes behind borderline personality disorder, BPD is linked to childhood abuse but that the causes could have also been functional families that were not able to teach their emotional child to manage emotional sensitivity. The third myth is about people with BPD not knowing how to love others, this deriving …show more content…
The fourth myth suggest that BPD only affect women which is untrue, however, researchers believe that BPD just might be underdiagnosed in men. The fifth myth is about the misconception that BPD is unbearable to live with but Dr. Manning suggests that this is untrue, that people with BPD could learn various strategies to help control their emotions and are able to live a happy and productive life. The sixth myth is that people with BPD cannot take care of themselves and that they are in and out of hospitals but in reality, they most likely get to have families and friends and jobs once they gain regulation of their emotions. The seventh myth is the stigma that people with BPD don't truly want to kill themselves that they attempt suicide only to gain attention but really they often just self-harm as a relief of their intense emotions without having the intentions to die.The last myth is the belief of no treatments for BPD but there are several treatments such as dialectical behavior therapy which helps people with BPD to learn new behavioral skills and many other strategies to help stabilize emotions and …show more content…
In the research I’ve summarized about the link between loneliness and social isolation and impaired social functioning, the researchers had suggested that loneliness was a symptom within BPD patients as a result BPD patients reported smaller and less diverse social networks and social functioning which often led to loneliness. The course description of the people with the disorder discouraged the myth but mostly encouraged it due to the course descriptions not necessarily taking in account the people aspect but instead discussing the more scientific and statistical aspect which lead to it being a more generalized description of the disorder. The main idea of the research related strongly to the myth that people with BPD are incapable of loving others, loneliness as a symptom emphasizes how people with BPD truly feel, the fact that they have difficulty controlling their emotions could be a reason that they tend to isolate themselves or that they lack social functioning. This symptom does not mean that they are incapable of loving and caring for others, they just have difficulty with their emotions which could result in the possibility of intense love for others but the lack of skills to control emotions to the point of having to distance themselves and become lonely. In the course, Borderline Personality disorder was described as someone with instability, major mood
People with Borderline Personality Disorder tend to view the world as simple as possible. People who view the world like this, confuse the actions of others. (Hoermann et al, 2005) Recurrent thoughts about their relationships with others, lead them to experience extreme emotional reactions, great agony which they have a hard time controlling, which would result in engaging in self-destructive behaviors. Diagnosing a patient with this disorder can be challenging which is why is it is labeled as one of the difficult ones to diagnose. (Hoermann et al, 2005)
Borderline Personality Disorder in “Girl Interrupted” The movie, “Girl Interrupted,”is about a teenage girl named Susanna Kaysen who has been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. People with Borderline Personality Disorder “are often emotionally unstable, impulsive, unpredictable, irritable, and anxious. They are also prone to boredom. Their behavior is similar to that of individuals with schizotypal personality disorder, but they are not as consistently withdrawn and bizarre” (Santrock, 2003).
This paper looks at a person that exhibits the symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). In the paper, examples are given of symptoms that the person exhibits. These symptoms are then evaluated using the DSM-V criteria for BPD. The six-different psychological theoretical models are discussed, and it is shown how these models have been used to explain the symptoms of BPD. Assessment of
In order for someone to be diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, they must experience at least five of the following symptoms: 1) fear of abandonment, 2) a history of intense and unstable relationships with family, friends, and loved ones, which often go back and forth between idealization (which includes love and extreme closeness) to devaluation (which includes extreme hatred or anger), 3) a disto...
In the past, BPD was believed to be a set of symptoms between problems associated with mood and schizophrenia. These symptoms were believed to be comprised of distortions of reality and mood problems. A closer look at this disorder has resulted in the realization that even though the symptoms of this disorder reveal emotional complexity, this disorder is more closer to other personality disorders, on the basis of the manner in which it develops and occurs in families, than to schizophrenia (Hoffman, Fruzzetti, Buteau &ump; Neiditch, 2005). The use of the term borderline has however, resulted in a heated controversy between the health care fraternity and patients. Patients argue that this term appears to be somehow discriminatory and that it should be removed and the disorder renamed. Patients point out that an alternative name, such as emotionally unstable personality disorder, should be adopted instead of borderline personality disorder. Clinicians, on the other hand, argue that there is nothing wrong with the use of the term borderline. Opponents of this term argue that the terms used to describe persons suffering from this disorder, such as demanding, treatment resistant, and difficult among others, are discriminatory. These terms may create a negative feeling of health professionals towards patients, an aspect that may lead to adoption of negative responses that may trigger self-destructive behavior (Giesen-Bloo et al, 2006). The fact however, is that the term borderline has been misunderstood and misused so much that any attempt to redefine it is pointless leaving scrapping the term as the only option.
The other nurses were suspicious of the number of deaths and a dwindling supply of epinephrine while Kristen was working. Kristen had even asked her supervisor if the patient she was in charge of died that night, if she could go home. The supervisor said yes, and shortly after the patient was dead and Kristen went on a date with Glenn. 350 patients died the 7 years Kristen was a nurse at the hospital. During an investigation into the alarming death rate, Kristen tried to kill herself. While recovering in the hospital, she confessed to James that she had killed patients. Kristen disguised her voice with a toy voice changer and called the hospital and told James that there were three bombs in the hospital. This caused the hospital to
Linehan addressed the need for effective and empirically supported psychotherapeutic treatment for borderline personality disorder. She discovered important shortcomings in standard cognitive and behavioral (CBT) treatments (Chapman & Robins, 2004). DBT was developed to address difficulties faced when implementing standard CBT to ...
An estimated 1.6%-5.9% of the adult population in the United States has BPD, with nearly 75% of the people who are diagnosed being women. Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder include Frantic efforts to avoid being abandoned by friends and family, Unstable personal relationships that alternate between idealizations, Distorted and unstable self-image, Impulsive behaviors that can have dangerous outcomes, Suicidal and self-harming behavior, Periods of intense depressed mood, irritability or anxiety lasting a couple hours/days, Chronic feelings of boredom or emptiness, Inappropriate, intense or uncontrollable anger - often followed by shame and guilt, and Dissociative feelings. The three main factors that could cause this mental illness are Genetics, Environmental factors, and Brain function. This illness can only be diagnosed by a mental health professional after a series of interviews with the patient and family/friends of the patient. The patient must also have at least five of the nine symptoms of this illness in order to be diagnosed. The most common treatment for this illness is some form of psychotherapy. Some other treatment options are to prescribe medications and if needed a short-term
Introduction Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental health disorder. Children with this condition: Have unstable moods and relationships. Have trouble controlling emotions. Often engage in impulsive or reckless behavior. Often fear being abandoned by friends or family.
These people are at high risk for substance abuse, especially alcoholism, since it helps them to relieve tension, irritability and boredom. Borderline Personality Disorder individuals are unstable in several areas, including interpersonal relationships, behavior, mood, and self-image. Abrupt and extreme mood changes, stormy interpersonal relationships, an unstable and fluctuating self-image, unpredictable and self-destructive actions characterize the person with borderline personality disorder. These individuals generally have difficulty with their own sense of identity. They often experience the world in extremes, viewing others as either “all good” or “all bad.”
In Medea, Medea shows copious traits of an unstable individual, which I believe to be characterized by borderline personality disorder. “Borderline personality disorder is a mental health disorder that impacts the way you think and feel about yourself and others, causing problems functioning in everyday life. It includes a pattern of unstable intense relationships, distorted self-image, extreme emotions and impulsiveness” (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2015, p. 1). Throughout the various actions and emotions displayed by Medea, sorceress and wife of Jason, you can see the relevancy of borderline personality disorder on herself.
After watching Sybil and getting a sense of what she had to deal with growing up, I believe that there is no clear answer as to why Sybil was behaving in the way she did. Numerous psychologists and mental health experts have analyzed Sybil’s behaviors only to come up with many different diagnoses—including antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and most commonly dissociative identity disorder. I believe it is plausible that Sybil displays symptoms of two of the three disorders. I believe that Sybil displayed many of the criteria necessary to be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. For instance, Sybil became very attached to Dr. Wilbur and there was a clear disturbance in her identity.
People with BPD often have rapid changes of themselves because they have an unstable sense of who they are. They see themselves in a negative view of being bad or do not feel like they exist. With an unstable self- image it can lead to a recurrent change in friendships, values, goals, and gender identity (Flavin,
The history of BPD can be traced back to 1938 when Adolph Stern first described the symptoms of the disorder as neither being psychotic nor psychoneurotic; hence, the term ‘borderline’ was introduced (National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, 2009, p. 15). Then in 1960, Otto Kernberg coined the term ‘borderline personality organization’ to describe persistent patterns of behavior and functioning consisting of instability, and distressed psychological self-organization (National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, 2009, p. 15).
People with borderline personality disorder may behave impulsively and riskily, for instance, illegal gambling and unsafe sex; they have a fragile identity to themselves and have unstable self-evaluation. Relationships between borderline personality disordered people and their family, friends, and loved ones usually have rather stormy, unstable or intense relationship with others, for instances, changing from love and closeness to extreme dislike. While facing social interaction, they may suffer from stress and thus induces mood fluctuations. They may also commit suicidal behaviour or self-inflicted harm. They are extremely fear of being abandoned or alone.