People with borderline personality disorders show various patterns of behavior such as instability in relationships, self-image, and mood swings, etc.
Clinical features of borderline personality disorders include:
1. Identity disturbances such unstable self-image or sense of self
2. Self-damaging in areas such as binge eating, reckless driving, sex, substance abuse etc.
3. Recurrent suicidal behavior, self-mutilating etc.
4. Extreme feeling of emptiness, irritability and anxiety
5. Severe dissociative symptoms, paranoid ideation etc.
Treatments for borderline personality disorder include:
1. Biological treatment:
a. Antidepressant medications used for treating rapid mood shits, anger and anxiety.
b. Low doses of antipsychotic medicines especially for psychotic and transient behaviors.
c. Mood stabilizing medications such as use of carbazemine.
2. Psychological treatment:
a. Use of dialectical behavior therapy which focuses on patient’s acceptance for negative effects without indulging in self-destruction.
b. Another physiological treatment includes varieties of psychodynamic psychotherapy which aims at strengthening the egos of the people affected.
c. Mentalization is another method for skillfully using therapeutic relationships to help patients develop skills to understand and overcome their feelings and emotions.