Anxiety And Tension
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Or Bi-Polar Disorder Treatment
The first thing I think of when I hear the phrase
borderline personality disorder treatment is how after my friend had
been, finally, diagnosed with BPD or bi-polar disorder, she had to take
a daily handful of pills. This was to me excessive, especially compared
to my one pill a day for a similar but different disorder—similar in
that it manifested in the mental realms and different because it was
less about anger than it was or is about order.
First a disclaimer: while I am a mental disorder veteran, having a
mother, brother, best friend, and several boyfriends and husbands who
have struggled with everything from depression to schizophrenia, and
while I have ADD, I am not a medical expert or professional or even
paraprofessional and therefore any discussion of borderline personality
disorder treatment here is based on research and is not, as they will
tell you, to be taken as “advice”.
Next, a loose
(not-all-that-technical) definition of BPD is in order: Bi-polar
Personality Disorder attaches itself with symptoms of emotional
imbalance or inappropriateness. The BPD person typical has an
all-or-nothing, good-or-bad, black-or-white approach to the world and
way of receiving the world. I think in terms of extremes with no
leveling off, while a clinical expert would say, for example, that a
person with Bi-polar Disorder experiences emotions that “overwhelm
cognitive functioning” (as said by writers at PsychCentral). The BPD
person can have intense mood swings. (I always think of
manic-depressives, like my Mom, though psychotherapists will distinguish
the two disorders, claiming they are not the same. In fact, keep in mind
that I may be overlapping Bi-polarism with Borderline Personality here.)
The BPD person is often one who is angry, controlling, and/or in your
face one week, then meek, even obsequious the next. Anyway, I digress to
the nuances or suggestions of a few kinds of possible borderline
personality disorder treatment.
One strongly suggested if not
requisite borderline personality disorder treatment is
psychotherapy—with a very hard, almost inhumanly detached (with love)
professional.
Medications are the second most common, most
important variable in the borderline personality disorder treatment
plan. Again, depending upon who is administering treatment, what degrees
or characteristics of the disorder show, and depending upon the theories
and practices in existence thus far, chemical borderline personality
disorder treatment can include anti-psychotics, neuroleptics, and/or
anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medicines.
Just as my ADD
requires, and just as addictions and other problems need, a combination
of borderline personality disorder treatment plans or methods is best.
Therapy, in combination with medications or alternative treatment
procedures, works on the many levels a combination needs to: on the
biological (for any chemical imbalance or deficit), physical
(self-protection, especially for suicidal BPDs, is taught not bought),
and on the mental (whereby medication and life skills practice and
changes are also necessary in most cases, evidently.