Borderline+Personality

=**Personality Disorder**= //By: Zobair Khan, Daneyal Saraf, Jill Sweetman, and Allison Bell//

**Prevalence in General Population**
According to data from a national survey on mental disorders, around 1.6 percent of adults in the United States have Borderline Personality Disorder in a given year. BPD usually begins during adolescence or early adulthood.

**Prevalence in Children and Teens**
There is evidence to suggest that there is a higher rate of borderline personality in teens than in adults. This may be related to the fact that some teenagers display BPD in reaction to stressful events. In the general population, rates of borderline personality in adolescents are much lower than they are in inpatient populations. Studies have estimated rates of BPD in teens from 3 to 14%.

**Symptoms and Formal Diagnosis Criteria**

 * Extreme reactions, such as panic, depression, or rage, to perceived abandonment.
 * Sporadic, irregular pattern of relationships with family and friends, jumping between extreme likeness and love (idealization) and extreme dislike or anger (devaluation).
 * Unstable self-image or sense of self, which can mean sudden changes in feelings, opinions, values, or plans, including long-term such as school or career choices.
 * Impulsive and unhealthy behaviors, such as spending sprees, unsafe sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, and binge eating
 * Recurring suicidal behaviors or threats or self-harming behavior, such as cutting
 * Extreme and highly changeable moods, with each episode lasting between a few hours and a few days
 * Chronic feelings of emptiness and/or boredom
 * Inappropriate, intense anger or problems controlling anger
 * Having stress-related paranoid thoughts or severe dissociative symptoms, such as feeling cut off from oneself, observing oneself from outside the body, or losing touch with reality.

Research has shown that people who stop meeting the criteria for BPD, continue to do so years later.
 * Individuals with BPD are manipulative BPD can and does lead to a lot of strain on family/friend relationships, but it is not the person’s fault. Because of how people respond to others’ emotional outlets, people with BPD will act as if being manipulative, where as they’re just responding to their environment
 * It’s untreatable Research has shown that the correct treatments can be highly effective.
 * BPD is a life sentence
 * People with BPD aren’t trying hard enough Like any other personality disorder, people under it’s effects are often very bright people who try their hardest to overcome their obstacles.

**Treatment with Therapy and Drugs**
There have been many different types of treatments and drugs that have been tested to see if they will actually work. Treatments that are used are usually: Psychotherapy, Hospitalization, Medications such as Neuroleptics and Antidepressants, and lastly self-help have all been very effective.

**Recent News and Articles**
[|__http://psychcentral.com/news/2014/02/11/new-therapy-shows-promise-for-personality-disorders/65726.html__] Very recently, a new type of "cure" has been discovered on February 11, 2014. This method is called schema therapy.

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**Works Cited**
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