Behind the Borders
An easy to understand look at Borderline Personality Disorder.
Treatment
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
DBT for BPD focuses on teaching skills to tolerate distress, stabilize emotions, and maintain healthier relationships.
Schema Focused Therapy
Schema focused therapy for BPD focuses on confronting maladaptive beliefs that are developed as a result of early life events.
Mentalization Based Therapy
Mentalization based therapy for BPD focuses on helping the client to recognize mental states, such as thoughts, feelings, and wishes, in themselves and in others.
Transference Focused Psychotherapy
Transference focused psychotherapy uses elements of the relationship between the client and the therapist to help reduce BPD symptoms
Medications for Borderline Personality Disorder
Although there are currently no medications approved by the FDA to treat BPD, research has shown that some medications do reduce certain symptoms of the disorder. Medication may be particularly effective for BPD when it is used in conjunction with psychotherapy.
Some of the most commonly prescribed medications for BPD include antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics (anti-anxiety), and mood stabilizers/anticonvulsants. Other potential treatments, such as omega-3-fatty acids, are also being explored
Hospitalization - Intensive Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment
BPD is associated with very intense emotional experiences. As a result, people with BPD may need intensive BPD treatment.Sometimes people with BPD are admitted to a psychiatric hospital for intensive treatment. Inpatient treatment requires you to stay overnight in the hospital.
Another treatment option is partial hospitalization or day treatment. These are programs that are more intensive than traditional outpatient psychotherapy, but do not require you to stay overnight. You may be enrolled in a partial hospital or day program if you may be headed toward a crisis, or if you have just been discharged from inpatient hospitalization and need a period of more intensive treatment to make sure the crisis does not reemerge
Self Help - Self-Guided Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment
There are valuable self-help resources available for BPD that can be used in conjunction with more traditional forms of treatment. Books and online resources offer information about BPD and suggest ways to cope with the symptoms.
As you can see there are many different options, discuss
with your doctor or health worker which may be the best choice for you.
The contents of this page may be subject to change.
ACT - Acceptance and Commitment therapy.
A psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behavior change strategies, to contact the present moment fully and based on what the situation affords, changing or persisting in behavior.
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