Borderline personality disorder in women

Borderline personality disorder is diagnosed more often in women than in men, and occurs in 2% of women in a relatively young age. The ratio of men and women suffering from borderline reaches 3: 1. Symptoms of the disorder vary by sex: for example, women are more likely to demonstrate a violation of self-perception associated with BPD. Men, meanwhile, are more prone to irrational fits of aggression.

• Often the cause of borderline personality disorder in women becomes abuse in childhood.
• Women are more prone to the emergence of borderline as more dependent on others emotionally and physically. The position of women in society more controversial than that of men.
• Women are much more susceptible to failure.
• Because men seek psychological help Psychological help: to understand their own rubble ...   much less frequently than women, doctors subjective approach to the definition of the disorder, diagnosing borderline personality disorder in women more often than men.
• Since the borderline personality disorder is considered a disease women, men, in many cases, only treated for alcohol or drug dependence, and symptoms of borderline unnoticed.
• While women with borderline personality disorder are in the hospital, a man with the same disease often get straight to jail.

Symptoms

Women suffering from borderline personality disorder often have the strongest attacks of anger, depression Depression - a little more than a bad mood   and irritation. Seizures can last for hours or days. Among other common symptoms - impulsive aggression, self-injurious or suicidal behavior; often women suffering from borderline personality disorder, alcohol or drug abuse.

Patients with borderline personality disorder actually see the world in black and white, idealized, or, conversely, denigrating others. The attitude of the people is changing dramatically with love on hatred. Women suffering from borderline personality disorder often exhibit unexplainable episodes of love for family members, friends, partners. Emotions patients range from deep love to intense hatred.

Borderline Personality Disorder - a violation of emotional control and, as a result of extreme emotional instability, leading to the destruction of family, career and self-awareness.

Victims of borderline personality disorder feel unappreciated, exhausted, isolated from society, because of this, every effort to avoid loneliness and holding any relationship. Borderline personality disorder is often accompanied by other mental problems - bipolar disorder, depression, neurosis.

Borderline personality disorder and the relationship

People suffering from borderline personality disorder, are harmful to themselves and others, destroying any interpersonal relationships - whether it's friends, family, lovers. The behavior of people in a relationship is unstable and varies from intense all-consuming love to hate.

All interpersonal relationships entered into by people suffering from borderline personality disorder, characterized by instability. In love relationships they manipulate partners, being violent and controlling. As parents - ignore, humiliate and cause psychological harm to their children, and being friends - characterized by selfish, unreliable and irresponsible behavior, creating serious problems to others.

Treatment of borderline personality disorder

Borderline personality disorder - a serious mental illness Mental illness - ashamed to ask for help? Characterized by mood swings, erratic relationship with the reality of high anxiety Anxiety - how to distinguish normal from disease?   and a strong level of de-socialization. As a result of borderline personality disorder can destroy the family, career and personal self-perception. As a violation of emotional control, borderline personality disorder, in most cases leads to suicide attempts.

The optimal treatment of borderline personality disorder is considered psychotherapy. Many patients with a diagnosis prone to suicidal behavior, that for every therapist should be the first serious challenge. The risk of suicide and harm to the patient himself observed during the treatment period disorder.

Borderline personality disorder requires regular and continuous treatment, which includes conversations with a therapist about emotions and problems of the patient. Such talks should not cause the patient's tears or rage. For most patients, the treatment involves the need to learn new ways to control their own emotions, resulting in the majority of cases required hospitalization.

Modern society treats people suffering from borderline personality disorder as violators of public order, which can not be cured. In many cases, the appearance of the border disorder associated with alcohol or drug abuse; In this situation, therapy borderline requires an initial treatment for drug addiction.

Patients with borderline personality disorder are prescribed antidepressants, antipsychotics and mood stabilizers. These drugs can increase the amount of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain and relieve the patient the feeling of emptiness, mood swings Mood swings in women - bad character or a disease? , Temper tantrums in a few days. In 20% of cases suffering from borderline also required the use of vitamin B.

As is the case with any other disease or disorder, the symptoms and manifestations of borderline personality disorder may be different depending on the person, whereby the treatment for each patient individually. Before starting treatment, the physician must examine the patient with BPD and its environment, which affected the development of the disease.

Borderline personality disorder in children

The possibility of borderline personality disorder in children medicine has recognized not so long ago. Symptoms of borderline children may be "explosive" emotions and impulsive behavior, unreasonable rage, hypersensitivity, susceptibility to acts that cause harm to himself.

Borderline personality disorder in children often referred to as attention deficit disorder. The main features of this syndrome are considered depression, irritability Irritability - you try to control my temper , Panic attacks. Often with borderline personality disorder in children confuse bipolar disorder.

Presumably, in most cases, the occurrence of borderline personality disorder in children connected with the genetic factor, therefore, as a rule, the child's parents are screened for mental illness.