Posts Tagged ‘borderline personality disorder’
Understanding BPD, Self-Harm, and Cutting in Young Adults
If your young adult child is suffering emotionally, they might find it tempting, or even necessary, to engage in non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). This means that when they self-harm, they’re doing so to alleviate emotional pain and not with the intention to complete suicide. This is especially common for young adults with borderline personality disorder (BPD).…
Read MoreHelp for College Students with Borderline Personality Disorder
Most students want a quality education but quickly discover that earning a college degree can be tough. College applications are grueling and finding classes that fit your schedule & interest can be frustrating. Then, once the semester starts, keeping your attention on books instead of friends can be a struggle. For college students with borderline…
Read MoreOvercoming Borderline Personality Disorder in Young Adults: It’s Possible!
If your child is a young adult with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you deeply understand the struggles of intense mood swings, the inability to regulate emotions and the wild, impulsive behavior sometimes leading to self-harm or harm to others. Young adults aged 17 to 28 with BPD often struggle with relationships and other areas of…
Read MoreThe Parents’ Guide to Beating BPD
“I just felt like giving up. I felt like she hated me one day and loved me without limits the next,” Kaylen C. accounts about her youngest daughter. Kaylen’s daughter had been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) on her nineteenth birthday. For families dealing with a BPD diagnosis, this feeling is all too familiar.…
Read MoreDBT Self-Soothing Ideas for Men
Self-soothing is a common DBT practice that describes a way to comfort yourself during times of distress. It often focuses on one or more of your five senses – touch, taste, sight, smell, and/or sound. It has, over time, been more commonly associated with something women do, as a lot of the suggestions of self-soothing…
Read MoreStacy Pershall on BPD and Suicidality (at OPI Intensive)
It can be difficult at times for clients to feel that the staff working with them truly understand their struggles. How could we know what they are experiencing? How could we understand what it’s like to deal with Borderline Personality Disorder, anxiety, depression, or know the feeling of being in residential treatment? We as staff…
Read MoreSelf-Soothing Techniques for Young Adults With BPD
Self-soothing is one of the DBT Distress Tolerance Skills that are taught to folks suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Many with this disorder were never taught how to self-soothe, essentially how to make themselves feel better or comforted when emotionally distressed. Doing something as simple as smelling a flower was never correlated with feeling…
Read MoreCalming the Terrible Twos Using DBT Skills
There is that look that I have come to know well in my toddler…the one where the smile starts to turn down, the lip starts to quiver, the face starts to redden, and that first tear runs down the cheek. There is that moment of panic as I wait to see how this will turn…
Read MoreBorderline Personality Disorder in College
Being a college student can be both fun and challenging; however, for a college student with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), the goal of obtaining a college degree can seem downright impossible. For a student with BPD, successfully getting from point A (the beginning of the semester) to point B (completion of the semester), can be very…
Read MoreOvercoming Failure to Launch: Creating Space for Dialogue within the Extremes of Idealization and Devaluation in Borderline Personality Disorder
Individuals diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder often have a characteristic pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships. They may idealize therapists, caregivers, friends, or lovers during the first initial period together. They may then demand to spend an exorbitant amount of time together and share the most intimate and personal details early on in their…
Read MoreAnxiety and Failure to Launch Syndrome in Borderline Personality Disorder
Originally thought to be at the “borderline” between psychosis and neurosis, people with Borderline Personality Disorder suffer from a disorder of emotion regulation. A person with BPD may experience intense bouts of anger, depression, and anxiety that may last only hours, or at most a day. These may be associated with episodes of impulsive aggression…
Read MoreGuidelines for Relationship Effectiveness: Keeping a Relationship Using DBT GIVE Skills
My college roommate worked for the on-campus police substation, and as you can imagine they worked with a variety of students, professionals, and even the local community. More often than not, they were visiting the substation to complain about tickets, requesting a vehicle release, or reporting crimes. Watching her handle the never-ending line of disgruntled…
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