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Managing Your Borderline Personality Disorder

Living with Borderline Personality Disorder can be difficult, even overwhelming at times. However, managing your Borderline Personality Disorder is something you can learn how to do. In therapy, you can learn that although your thoughts and behaviors are self-destructive or damaging, you can learn methods which will teach you how to control them. Psychotherapy can help you to learn skills which teach you to manage and cope with your disorder, but there are other things you can learn as well, and other ways you can learn to manage your disorder.

Following are some other things you can do to help manage your Borderline Personality Disorder and feel better about yourself:

• Stick to your treatment plan.

• Attend all therapy sessions, as well as all other scheduled appointments (such as doctor’s and psychiatrist’s visits), and be on time.

• (If you are in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy), Do your homework.

• Join a Support Group for people who have Borderline Personality Disorder.

• Practice healthy ways to ease painful emotions, instead of inflicting self-injury.

• Keep a journal, where you can write down your thoughts and emotions.

• Try to be a more positive person. When you have negative thoughts, catch them as they happen, and consciously try to “see the glass as half-full”—for every negative thought, try to think of one positive thing to counter it.

• Don’t blame yourself for having the disorder, and don’t be embarrassed by it. Instead, recognize that it is your responsibility to get it treated.

• Learn what things trigger your angry outbursts and impulsive behavior, and work on avoiding those triggers.

• Get treatment for any other related problems you may have, such as substance abuse or an eating disorder.

• Educate yourself about Borderline Personality Disorder, so that you understand its causes and treatments better.

• Reach out to other people who also have Borderline Personality Disorder to share experiences and insights – helping others is a good way of helping yourself.

• Take one day at a time.

About the Author

David Oliver is the founder of BorderlineCentral.com a one stop source of information on how to cope and deal with borderline personality disorder.

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