How We Treat Borderline Personality Disorders at Satori Health

Borderline Personality Disorder

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Caring & Compassionate Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorders in Los Angeles

Understanding Borderline
Personality Disorders Treatment

Personality disorders are a group of mental health conditions that alter your everyday thoughts, emotions and behaviors. The changes you experience interfere in some way with your ability to function and follow accepted social norms. One of the most severe examples of illnesses in this category is borderline personality disorder (BPD). Left untreated, BPD can have a major negative impact on your emotional state. In a worst-case scenario, this impact can lead to catastrophic consequences.

Satori Health offers a state-of-the-art BPD treatment center in the San Fernando Valley. We specialize in customized recovery plans for all affected people. Our goal is to support your return to well-being with quality, evidence-based care.

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Understanding Borderline Personality Disorders

What Is Borderline Personality Disorder?

BPD is what’s known as a Cluster B personality disorder. This same term also applies to three other illnesses:

  • Antisocial personality disorder
  • Histrionic personality disorder
  • Narcissistic personality disorder

All of these conditions are similar in certain respects. Specifically, they produce behaviors that can be categorized as unusually emotional, dramatic, or unpredictable. There are also notable differences between each Cluster B illness. In people affected by BPD, characteristic personality changes include:

  • A poor ability to regulate your emotions
  • An increase in impulsive behavior resulting from poor emotional control
  • An inaccurate, fluctuating view of yourself
  • Rapid mood changes

Roughly 1.6% to 5.9% of all Americans are affected by BPD. This estimate includes adults, teens, preteens and children. Women and girls develop the disorder about as often as men and boys. However, for various reasons, women and girls account for three out of every four official BPD diagnoses.

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What Are the Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder?

A variety of symptoms are common among people affected by borderline personality disorder. The list of these symptoms includes:

  • A tendency to rapidly change points of view and personal interests
  • An all-or-nothing outlook that doesn’t allow for nuance or subtlety
  • Rapidly shifting opinions of others
  • A compelling need to be around other people instead of alone
  • Recurring feelings of boredom or a sense of emptiness
  • Frequent involvement in impulsive behavior
  • Bouts of disproportionate or out-of-place anger
  • Participation in cutting and other forms of self-harming behavior

Suicidal thoughts and behavior are also unusually likely among people with BPD. The average affected person will attempt suicide three times over the course of their lives. As many as one out of every ten people with the disorder will die as a result of suicide. 

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The Diagnosis

How is BPD Diagnosed?

How does a borderline treatment center in the San Fernando Valley diagnose BPD? No matter where you live, a proper diagnosis follows a certain set of established criteria. These criteria state that you must have an ongoing personality pattern that includes problems with your:

  • Ability to maintain stable relationships
  • Image of yourself
  • Level of control over your emotional state
  • Degree of involvement in impulsive behavior

In addition, that pattern must be demonstrated by the presence of at least five out of nine specific issues. These definitive issues are:

  • Intense, destabilized relationships that veer between emotional extremes
  • Lack of a stable, reliable self-image
  • An extreme fear of actual or misperceived abandonment
  • Moods that only last for anywhere between a few hours and a few days
  • An ongoing sense of emptiness
  • High-risk impulsive behavior in at least two aspects of your life
  • Intense, hard-to-control anger that doesn’t match a given situation
  • Stress-related bouts of paranoia or extreme disconnection from reality
  • Recurring self-harm or suicidal threats, gestures, or actions 

Your BPD-related problems must be present by the time you reach the early stages of adulthood. 

Borderline personality disorder is so-named because it was once thought to exist on the margins of other diagnosable conditions. This is no longer the case. However, BPD does resemble certain characteristics of other mental health conditions. To make an accurate diagnosis, your doctor must exclude these conditions as potential causes for your symptoms. Specific conditions that must be excluded include:

  • Narcissistic and histrionic personality disorder
  • Depression 
  • Anxiety disorders
  • PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder)

Your doctor must also ensure that your symptoms are not related to a drug or alcohol problem.

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What Causes Borderline Personality Disorder?

The picture of BPD development is complex. No single cause of the disorder exists. Instead, your overall level of risk appears to be set by a combination of factors. These potential risks include:

  • Having a mother, father, sister, or brother already affected by BPD
  • Childhood exposure to abuse or other kinds of traumatic experiences
  • Early exposure to people with dysfunctional or unstable relationships
  • Exposure to other forms of significant conflict

Research also shows that people with BPD sometimes have brains that are structurally or functionally unusual. However, no one knows if these kinds of brain change actually impact your risks for the disorder.

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How to Treat Borderline Personality Disorder

Psychotherapy is the go-to resource for borderline personality disorder treatment in Southern California and elsewhere. Two forms of therapy often play a major role in an effective recovery plan. The first of these primary options is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). The second is dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT).

In CBT, you learn how to spot distortions in your thought patterns. You also learn how to undo those distortions. DBT, a subtype of CBT, was largely designed as a borderline personality disorder treatment. In its opening stages, it focuses on helping you accept the reality of BPD’s effects. It then enables you to move beyond your current limits by showing you how to:

  • Gain control over your emotions
  • Communicate with others in a more even-keeled, civil manner

Effective Southern California BPD treatment may also include medication. However, this option is secondary to therapy. As a rule, you only receive medication for particular symptoms of the disorder. In addition, you typically receive limited doses of any given medication. 

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Satori Health Offers BPD Treatment in the San Fernando Valley

A San Fernando Valley BPD treatment center may be crucial to your health and welfare. That’s true because untreated borderline personality disorder can lead to severe or even fatal outcomes. With the right help, you can recover from BPD. The sooner you seek a qualified treatment provider, the better.

You can find the help you need at Satori Health’s BPD treatment center in the San Fernando Valley. We feature comprehensive support for your recovery from borderline personality disorder. Regardless of your situation, you’ll receive customized care designed to fit your one-of-a-kind situation. Just call us today to get started.