Borderline+Personality

 **borderline personality disorder (BPD)** is a serious mental illness characterized by pervasive instability in moods, interpersonal relationships, self-image, and behavior. BDP belongs to the group of mental illnesses called personality disorders. **__Symptoms:__** -intense spurs of anger. -Intense anxiety. -Major Depression -Have unpredictable unstable social relationships towards family, friends and loved ones. -Drug or alcohol abuse. -They can engage in expensive spending, binge eating and risky sex. -They can feel misunderstood, or have a feeling of being lost and empty. -Suicide threats

__**//CAUSES://**__ ﻿The causes of BDP is unknown, it is believed though that it is caused by a combination of biological vulnerabilities, ways of thinkings and things in your life that cause stress. Also some factors that come into play are genetics, some studies of twins and families were conducted and it is believed that it can be inherited. Environmental factors is also believed to be a cause because people that have a childhood history of abuse, neglect and separation from parents or loved ones. Lastly brain abnormalities because research shows that certain areas of the brain involved in emotion regulation, impulsive thinking and aggression cause changes in the chemicals in your brain that regulate mood.

__**TREATMENT:**__ ﻿Treatment includes Pharmacological treatments that are prescribed to the patient based on the symptoms that they are displaying. If they are showing emotions of being depressed, they will assign you antidepressants that stabilize your mood.

**[|eating disorders]** **[|Schizotypal]** **[|Passive-aggressive personality]**
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** It is important to emphasize that medical conditions which cause organic behavioral function may result in a clinical picture that mimics to some degree BPD. Hormonal dysfunction over a long period, or brain dysfunction (e.g. the encephalopathy caused by lyme disease) can result in identity disturbance and mood lability, as can many other chronic medical conditions such as lupus. These conditions may isolate the patient socially and emotionally, and/or cause limbic damage to the brain. However, this is not borderline personality disorder which results, but rather a reaction to the isolating circumstances caused by a medical condition and the possibly coincident struggles of the patient to control his or her mood given damage to the brain's limbic system. Heavy alcohol usage over a long period itself can cause an encephalopathy which may cause limbic damage. Various frontal lobe syndromes can result in disinhibition and impulsive behavior. (Wikipedia) **

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