Contents:
- Medical Video: How to Test for Borderline Personality Disorder
- What is borderline personality disorder?
- What does it feel like to have borderline personality disorder?
- How can you feel better?
- How to overcome borderline personality?
Medical Video: How to Test for Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline personality disorder is a psychological condition in which a person has difficulty controlling his emotions. This condition, also known as threshold personality disorder, is generally characterized by changes mood sudden, insecure, and difficult social relationships.
However, what does this condition actually look like and what does it feel like to be someone who has borderline personality disorder? Find the answer below.
What is borderline personality disorder?
Based on National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in 2009, someone could be said to have borderline personality disorder if they showed five or more of the symptoms below. These symptoms include:
- Have emotion unstable, for example feeling very confident in one day, but feeling very desperate the next day. Change mood unstable ones are accompanied by feelings of emptiness and accompanied by anger.
- Often find it difficult to establish and maintain a relationship.
- Often take action without thinking about the risks of the action.
- Having a sense of dependence on others.
- Take actions that can endanger yourself, or think and plan actions that endanger yourself.
- Have a fear of rejection or fear of feeling lonely
- Often believe things that are not real or see or hear things that are not real
Someone who has borderline personality, often experiences other personality disorders such as anxiety, eating disorders (such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia) or dependence on alcohol and drugs.
What does it feel like to have borderline personality disorder?
Borderline personality disorder is a disorder that can make an sufferer almost always feel anxious, inferior, and frightened. It's natural that you feel anxious when you want to make important decisions, for example. However, if you constantly feel that way even when there are no obvious triggers, you might have a borderline personality.
Look, imagine when you gather with family. Your family is chatting while laughing. Suddenly you feel sad and frantic, why can't you enjoy the atmosphere like the others? Finally, you blame yourself and hate yourself.
Or you and a friend have an appointment to watch a movie together in a cinema. Unfortunately, your friend canceled the appointment instead. Even if your friend cancels an appointment because there is an important matter, you cannot control negative thoughts that in fact he deliberately canceled because he did not want to go with you.
Such thoughts ultimately make you feel so empty and hopeless. It's as if you are alone in this world and no one understands your feelings. However, on the other hand you also feel flooded with various kinds of mixed negative emotions. When those feelings emerge, you can explode uncontrollably.
How can you feel better?
There are a number of tips so that people with borderline personality disorder feel better and full of control. Consider the following tips when the symptoms of this disorder are relapsing.
- Physical activity such as dancing, walking, exercising, cleaning the house, or other activities to distract from emotions at that time.
- Playing music can help improve mood. Play pleasant music when sad, or play soothing music when you're feeling anxious.
- Talk and tell someone who is trusted.
- Do meditation.
- Do breathing exercises to be more relaxed. Sit or lie down in a quiet place, then breathe calmly, slowly, and deeply.
- Sleep and adequate rest.
- Read interesting books.
- Get to know and manage every emotion that appears, for example by writing a diary.
- Take a warm bath, especially before going to bed if you also have insomnia.
How to overcome borderline personality?
Counseling psychotherapy with a psychologist or therapist can help those who have borderline personality. Psychotherapy can be done twice a week. The aim of psychotherapy is to reduce actions that can endanger life, help regulate emotions, motivate and help improve quality of life. Psychotherapy can be done both individually and in groups.
Based on research conducted in the journal Primary Psychiatry, those who undergo psychotherapy have a good level of progress in establishing social relationships, refraining from impulsive and dangerous things, and controlling emotions after six months.
