Personality Disorders
Borderline Personality Disorders
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Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment
Borderline personality disorder is also known as BPD. This personality disorder impacts the ability to manage emotions. With a loss of emotional control, someone with BPD might struggle with how they feel about themselves, and it also has a big impact on their interpersonal relationships with other people. There are effective treatments for BPD that can help manage symptoms to live a fulfilling, thriving life.
Centric Behavioral Health provides borderline personality disorder treatment and locations nationwide. Borderline personality disorder is a common dual diagnosis with addiction, and our treatment center specializes in co-occurring disorders like these.
Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder
A loss of emotional control defines borderline personality disorder. Someone with BPD will often experience the feeling of being on an emotional roller coaster, contributing to ups and downs in how they perceive others and themselves. BPD can lead to regular shifts in goals, self-image, and likes and dislikes, which can feel confusing to the person experiencing these changes.
Extreme sensitivity, emotional volatility, and difficulties in self-soothing are characteristics of BPD, which lead to tumultuous relationships and impulsive behavior that can sometimes be reckless.
Having BPD can lead you to feel overwhelming emotions that cloud your thinking, leading you to say hurtful things or act out. Then, you might experience guilt or shame.
It becomes a difficult cycle to escape from without appropriate treatment.
Signs and symptoms of this personality disorder include:
- Feelings of emptiness
- Shifting emotions, including extremes of sadness, anxiety, and anger
- Fear of abandonment
- Romantic relationships that are intense but unstable
- Feelings about others change dramatically from one moment to another
- Engaging in reckless or unhealthy behaviors like binge drinking or unsafe sex
- Attempted self-harm, or engagement in self-harm behaviors
- Threatening suicide
- Insecurity in relationships that leads to lashing out
- Explosive anger and trouble controlling feelings of rage
- Feelings of being out of touch with reality or a sense of paranoia; dissociation
- Efforts to avoid either real or perceived abandonment
Not everyone with BPD experiences all the potential symptoms, and the severity and frequency of the symptoms also depend on the individual.
As with other personality disorders, BPD is often diagnosed with other co-occurring disorders, including substance abuse, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, or eating disorders. Post-traumatic stress disorder is another common mental health disorder that co-occurs with BPD.
Centric Behavioral Health is an addiction rehab facility offering borderline personality disorder treatment. Our programs are evidence-based to treat both substance use and mental health disorders simultaneously.
Risk Factors for BPD
Borderline personality disorder isn’t caused by one specific thing. Instead, multiple factors can usually increase the risk of developing a personality disorder.
- One factor is family history. Someone with a close family member with borderline personality disorder may be more likely also to develop it.
- Researchers have found that there may be certain changes in the brain of people with BPD, especially in controlling emotional regulation and impulse control.
- Someone with BPD is more likely to have experienced trauma, such as abandonment or childhood abuse.
Licensed mental health professionals can diagnose BPD by evaluating symptoms, family medical history, and experiences. The diagnosis is usually made in the late teen years or early adulthood, but sometimes people younger than 18 might be diagnosed if they have significant, long-term symptoms.
Our Centric Behavioral Health team can diagnose and create a treatment plan if someone has an undiagnosed personality disorder or mental health disorder. We offer research-driven borderline personality disorder treatment.
Treatments Options
Our programs provide world-class, evidence-based treatment for substance abuse, dual diagnosis, and mental health conditions, all within boutique, supportive environments. With expertly trained staff and personalized treatment plans, you can trust that choosing one of our facilities means receiving the highest standard of care tailored to your unique needs.
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Borderline Personality Disorder and Addiction
Borderline personality disorder and substance use disorders often have overlapping symptoms, such as impulsive and self-destructive behaviors. Both conditions can cause dramatic mood changes, a lack of self-respect and regard for one’s health and safety, and overall uncertainty are also symptomatic of both.
Irritability, depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation can be signs of substance abuse and BPD.
It’s estimated that 78% of adults with BPD develop addictions at some point, worsening their symptoms and leading to less clinical stability. When someone has BPD and an untreated substance use disorder, they are more likely to display suicidal behavior and drop out of treatment programs. It’s important that when there’s a combination of borderline personality disorder and addiction, a specialized approach to therapy and treatment is taken.
So why the high likelihood that someone with BPD will develop an addiction to drugs or alcohol? Multiple factors may influence this.
- Someone with BPD might turn to drugs or alcohol to self-medicate. For example, they might want to avoid their ongoing feelings of emptiness or instability or deal with the pain of troubled relationships.
- Trauma earlier in life leads to BPD and causes someone to self-medicate to deal with those experiences.
- A lack of overall coping mechanisms can cause substance abuse.
- It’s also possible that the same brain areas play a role in both, such as the parts controlling impulses and rewards.
Symptoms of addiction include:
- Uncontrollable substance use even though it’s causing known negative effects
- Extreme cravings for drugs or alcohol
- Prioritizing substances above everything else
- Problems in relationships
- Not meeting expectations or requirements at home, school, or work
- Physical health concerns
- Putting oneself in risky situations to get drugs or alcohol or while under the influence of them
- Withdrawal symptoms when attempting to cut back or stop using
- Unsuccessful attempts to reduce use or stop
Centric Behavioral Health is a borderline personality disorder treatment center. We offer customized BPD treatment as part of our addiction treatment programs in a safe and compassionate environment. We also have locations in states nationwide.
Dual Diagnosis Treatment
Addiction treatment can occur on an inpatient or outpatient basis. Most people begin with inpatient treatment first, where they live onsite for a period of time. This is where they’re highly focused on their recovery, and most of their time is spent in therapy, individually and on a group basis. Inpatient treatment offers the unique opportunity to stabilize away from triggers or outside influences.
Along with different forms of talk therapy, medication-assisted treatment may be used for addictions to opioids or alcohol. MAT includes using FDA-approved medicines to reduce withdrawal symptoms and drug and alcohol cravings.
Psychiatric medicines such as antidepressants may also be part of a treatment plan for personality disorders.
Once someone is ready, they can move into a less intensive level of treatment, such as an intensive or more flexible outpatient program.
Centric Behavioral Health Offers Comprehensive Personality Disorder Treatment
If a person has a personality disorder and a simultaneous substance use disorder and both aren’t treated according to evidence, they’re likely to relapse after treatment.
Specific types of psychotherapy or talk therapy used for treating personality disorders can also work well for addiction, including dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavioral therapy.
Whether you’re looking for personality disorder treatment for yourself or a loved one, it’s available at Centric Behavioral Health. If you are looking for mental health or addiction treatment services at Centric Behavioral Health can help. If you’d like to learn more about our inpatient drug rehab centers, contact us today.
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