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Causes and Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder

Causes for Borderline Personality Disorder:

• Brain chemistry impairment. It is believed that the neurotransmitters serotonin, norepinephrine, dopamine, and acetylcholine may be involved.
• Environmental influences early in the patient’s life - anything from long-term isolation for an early infectious disease to child abandonment to severe physical or sexual abuse.
• Triggers that bring on symptoms of the disorder, such as traumas in adolescence or stressors such as divorce later in life.
  Treatment

Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder may not allow him/herself to be treated. When this happens, it is called denial. However, when a person with Borderline Personality Disorder allows him/herself to be treated, treatment generally consists of one of the following treatment modalities:

• Medications:
  Medications are often used successfully to reduce depression, decrease anxiety, and dampen the emotional ups and downs, and stop symptoms such as the excessive impulsivity associated with Borderline Personality Disorder. Antidepressants such as Effexor can help with depression, while mood stabilizing medications such as Depakote or Lithium can help with mood swings. Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) such as Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft can help control impulsivity. Tegretol may help for controlling excessive irritability and anger.
   
• Traditional Psychotherapy:
  Traditional psychotherapy methods, especially Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), have proven especially effective in treating people with Borderline Personality Disorder. The major problems, however, are finding a qualified therapist, getting the patient into therapy, and getting funding for the treatment since, unfortunately, Borderline Personality Disorder is still not recognized as an authentic diagnosis by some insurance companies.
   
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT):
  Marsha Linehan is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington, who researched and developed a cognitive-behavioral method of treatment called Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). This therapeutic approach to treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder has been shown to help patients experience less anger and less self-injury, and fewer inpatient psychiatric stays, than patients who received other traditional forms of treatment.

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