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There are a few disorders that are difficult to treat, or I stigmatized as borderline personality disorder.

Thought of to be in grain series of behaviors, unlike depression, or even more complex mental illnesses, like schizophrenia.

Borderline personality disorder cannot be treated with medication. Instead, it requires intensive behavioral therapy sessions and willingness from the patient to stick to their care plan.

Therapists are reluctant to diagnose patients with the disorder, or they reach the age of 18.

And often, the symptoms of BPD are misdiagnosed as bipolar disorder.

To their detriment, it is an uncommon for those suffering from BPD to be diagnosed with various mood disorders, before landing on their correct diagnosis.

Where the compounding matters is that BPD is often found to exist comorbidly with mood disorders such as bipolar disorder, which can mass some of the symptoms.

Substance abuse issues can also help to further disguise some of the disorders tell tale signs.

As with mood disorders, those suffering from BPD are usually reluctant to seek out treatment on their own, and will often refrain from doing so, till they are faced with severe negative consequences.

Even then, the out of strong support network of family, friends and trusted professionals in their corner.

Many of those suffering with BPD will not continue to treatment plans long term.

The DSM-5 outlines the key criteria necessary for someone to be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

This criteria includes,

Brenic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment, unstable and intense relationships that are characterized by alternating extremes of idealization and evaluation, identity disturbance characterized by persistent and unstable self-image or sense of self, and pulsivity, including substance abuse, binge eating, or mischievous sex and excessive spending.

Reoccurring suicidal threats or self-harmed, intense episodes of dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety that can last as little as a few hours to as long as a few days, feelings of emptiness, intense or inappropriate anger, or a difficulty controlling anger,

stress-related paranoid ideation, or severe disassociative symptoms.

Well, no one knows for sure what causes BPD, experts theorize that BPD is a product of both nature and nurture,

an environment where physical, sexual, and or emotional abuse are present, creates a perfect storm for those genetically predisposed to the disorder, and when left unchecked and can lead to unhealthy and abusive patterns of behavior.

The most striking characteristic of those suffering from BPD is their uncontrollable and sometimes violent rages.

The mood of a person suffering from BPD can easily go from loving someone to wishing death upon them within a matter of minutes, leaving their non-BPD target in a state of fear, infusion, and anger.

These swells of emotion are many times linked to the BPD sufferers fear of abandonment, specifically their overwhelming feelings of anxiety, as well as the disassociation that accompanies those malign thoughts.

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