| Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a serious | | | | Disorder treatment is to help the patient gain control |
| mental illness characterized by the inability to regulate | | | | over urges to inflict self-harm or even commit suicide. |
| emotions. According to various online sources, this | | | | These patients have great unstable emotional mood |
| disorder affects women primarily with an onset | | | | swings in response to stress or significant life events |
| during adolescence. | | | | and should always be monitored closely during an |
| Patients with BPD demonstrate constant emotional | | | | episode. Often short periods of psychosis accompany |
| instability and distress that leaves them in a constant | | | | the mood swings, and the patient loses touch with |
| state of despair. The goal of Borderline Personality | | | | reality at this point. Narcissism is also a cardinal |
| Disorder treatment is to help patients eventually gain | | | | feature of Borderline Personality Disorder, and |
| stability over their illness and lead productive lives. | | | | maintaining interpersonal relationships is difficult and |
| Men and women who receive treatment for | | | | self-esteem suffers greatly. BPD patients are very |
| Borderline Personality Disorder usually require | | | | controlling and are constantly insecure and questioning |
| extensive mental health services throughout their | | | | of people they meet. They are quick to start |
| lives, including regular psychotherapy sessions and | | | | relationships but soon become disappointed and make |
| periodic re-evaluation by a psychiatrist and | | | | great demands, when threatened with abandonment |
| adjustment of psychotropic medications when | | | | the symptoms accelerate, which can lead to |
| necessary. | | | | self-injury or suicide attempt. |
| The most significant goal of Borderline Personality | | | | |