Borderline Personality Disorder Essay

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Adolescence: a transition from children to adults, a time that we learn about ourselves, develop a sense of self and gain control of our emotions. However, individuals that are not able to associate with their feelings and build their self-esteem can be diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder is a mental illness that can be found in a number of adolescents and they are more likely to suffer from unstable identity, instability of emotions and fear of abandonment than adolescents without BPD. Also, it affects other aspect of individual 's life such as relationships with others, and decision making because of their impulsiveness and instability. However, BPD is a treatable psychological disorder, through …show more content…

Therefore, when they do not have the feeling of control or stressed, they would possibly result in emotion dysfunction or shutting down their feelings to avoid getting hurt emotionally. A research shows that “shame-based dysfunction is central to conceptualization of BPD, wherein it has been proposed that individuals with BPD respond with shame to uncontrollable and negative effects as a consequence of developing in environment that shame who show emotional vulnerability”(Howes,303). The research also shows that “shame-prone self-concept may influence perception and behaviours to confer risk to low self-esteem and high levels of anger and impassivity”(Howes,303). These information indicates that individuals with BPD lack of understanding of their own emotions and not able to associate with their feelings. They tend to have stronger emotions and even if they are relatively calm, they still have some negative emotions such as disappointment and anger underlying (Borderline Personality Disorder). Nevertheless, it has been proven that individuals will able to learn and develop skills to deal with their feelings in order to interpret their emotions and avoid mood swings. They will also get better from emotion dysfunction as they grow older because they will be able to view things in different perspectives and have the skills to associate with their mood …show more content…

These treatments can be divided in 2 categories, therapist and/or medicine. PBS 's website on BPD states that therapy “involves learning about your condition, and thinking and talking about how you feel, think and behave”.The website also lists 3 different therapies that are effectively improving the symptoms of BPD. First of all, transference-focused psychotherapy helps individuals with BPD to understand about emotions and difficulties in a relationship. And through conferences, therapist would “walk them through” the relationship in order for individuals with BPD knowing what to do to maintain an healthy relationship. Second of all, Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) focus on “developing skills for handling stress, regulation emotions, tolerating negative emotions and improving relationships. DBT has been proven as one of the most effective treatment of BPD as one of the interviewee in Border _ | A compassionate documentary on BPD ,directed by Sattler, mentions that DBT has helped her a lot to understand herself and able to start developing the sense of true self. She also says that DBT has helped her to be able to associate with her negative thoughts and use it to improve herself. Last but not least, Schema therapy helps “to recognize and switch out self-defeating schema modes as quick as

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