Borderline Personality Disorder ( Adhd )

What is Borderline Personality Disorder? Defined by the website www.borderlinepersonalitydisorder.com, “Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental illness that causes unstable moods, behavior, and relationships. It usually begins during adolescence or early adulthood.” One may wonder what can be the cause of this disorder. BPD can be detected by an in-person interview about the symptoms that are occurring. The input from family and close friends of the individual that is being treated can also help detect the symptoms. The causes for BPD are not fully

Personality disorders have a sex prevalence rate and there has been some suggestion that those rates reflect gender bias. The bias concerns derived from the “conceptualization of personality disorders, the wording of diagnostic criteria, the application of diagnostic criteria, thresholds for diagnosis, clinical presentation, researching sampling, the self-awareness and openness of patients and the items included within self-report inventories” (Butcher, 2009, p. 356). Studies have failed to prove that there is significant gender bias in the DSM. However, research has showed there is gender bias within clinical judgments. For example, gender related items would be included within self-report inventories (Butcher, 2009). Clinicians tend to judge female patients as being mentally ill more readily than male patients, even when the symptoms are the same. Moreover, women are more likely to be cast as overly emotional, have a need for mood-altering medication and require ongoing monitoring/treatment (Zur and Nordmarken, 2010).

Men and women have different levels of risks of getting mental illnesses such as alcohol dependency. This is “more than twice as high in men than women. In developed countries, approximately 1 in 5 men and 1 in 12 women develop alcohol dependence during their lives” WHO 2015. This clearly shows that men and women have different risks when it comes to health and illness. Men are also twice as likely to have personality disorders, but women are more likely to have anxiety and depression than men are. Women have more accounts of sexual harassment and rape and this has a knock on effect to the amount of people with depression.

BPD affects about four percent of the community, but can be as high as twenty percent in many clinical psychiatric populations. It can be difficult to treat because it responds poorly to most conventional methods of treatment and because of how little we still know about it. There have been many great discoveries about BPD in only a few decades. There are still many questions to be answered about this disorder, but it has gone from a label attached to those who did not quite fit into other categories to a completely separate and somewhat understood mental illness.

This factor applies to both physical and emotional trauma that result in marked changes in normal cognition. It is also believed that women are at a greater risk to develop this disorder than men, but no explanation as to why. Depression is experienced in a good portion of people who suffer from and are limited in their daily lives by fibromyalgia.

Psychologists perform many studies related to Borderline Personality Disorder. One study in adults proves that 2-8% of adults suffer from BPD. In the same study, psychologist discovered that in fact the disorder is far more common in women than in men. After obtaining research in children and teens we see the frequency of BPD in 9-19 years of age is about 11%. This study or theory also proves that BPD occurs more often in girls than in boys. Borderline Personality Disorder can be triggered or caused in many different ways. Some people suffer from BPD due to a disturbing childhood experience. Studies show this disorder could even be genetic. There are numerous reasons why a child, teen, adult can develop traits and eventually suffer from BPD. Many patients tell or report abuse or neglect during childhood or some pivotal time in their life. The most common abuse reported tends to be sexual abuse as a child. Forty to seventy percent of patients with Borderline Personality Disorder, who suffered abuse as a child, claim the abuse was sexual in nature. Other important causes revolve around family neglect, foster care, or trauma. BPD patients have an increased fear of losing a primary attachment figure. With higher awareness of BPD, we now know this disorder’s high personal, social, and economic toll make it a national public health

Many psychotherapists are reluctant to treat BPD, because patients are difficult to deal with, angry, clingy and out of control, and the ones that do treat it, have a hard time understanding the reality of the patient. Because BPD is a result of a trust issue in the first stage of psychosocial development, it is difficult to alter. BPD becomes part of who they are, leaving a distorted view of self. This contributes to the factor that talking about the illness makes it worse. BPD patients might use their disorder as a scapegoat for their behaviour. They think its okay to act the way they do. So how do you treat it

“According to data from a subsample of participants in a national survey on mental disorders, about 1.6 percent of adults in the United States have BPD in a given year. BPD usually begins during adolescence or early adulthood” (National Institute of Mental Health).

Borderline Personality Disorder involves many symptoms that interfere with daily life. Some symptoms are chronic fear of abandonment, constant mood swings, anxiety, dissociation, impulsivity, and manic states. BPD usually begins to manifest in the late teenage years, however, it can be diagnosed earlier if symptoms have been present for two years or over. If someone had a childhood trauma, especially related to abandonment, it can cause BPD. Borderline is most common in women, although there is controversy surrounding that statistic because of gender-based discrimination.

Others will deem a person with BPD as hopeless because they cannot rewire their brains. Someone with BPD believes that they deserve any punishment that they receive or give themselves (Barlow, 416). This stems curiosity on how and/or why these mindsets develop. With a child abuse history or history of maltreatment, a child can develop BPD. The Mayo Clinic provides studies that prove genetics and brain abnormalities may play a role.

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) falls into cluster b category which is characterized as dramatic, emotional, or erratic disorders. People with borderline personality disorder are characterized by their volatile and unstable relationships; they tend to have persistent problems in early adulthood, with frequent hospitalization, unstable personal relationships, severe depression, and suicidal gestures. They tend to have turbulent relationships, fearing abandonment but lacking control over their emotions.

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) affects about 4% of the general population, and at least 20% of the clinical psychiatric population. (Kernberg and Michels, 2009) In the clinical psychiatric population, about 75% of those with the disorder are women. BPD is also significantly heritable, with 42-68% of the variance associated

People with BPD also experience different co-occurring disorders depending on their genders. In a research by Johnson et al. (2003) women with BPD were more common to have co-occurring disorders such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD) and eating disorders, while men showed a greater tendency to have narcissistic,

Mental disorders are that of Alzheimer’s and Dementia, these disorders have no cure and there is nothing you can do to prevent them. Unlike some of the conditions named earlier the onset of these mental issues can start showing up early on in life. Breakthroughs are being made in to the cause and possibly someday a cure but that is up in the air as of now. There seems to be no difference in the rates in which men and women develop these disorders. Other Mental health disorders such as Depression seem to be more prevalent in women than men, this in my opinion could possibly be explained by the difference in the lifespan of men and women, as depression can usually have an onset later in life.

As health is seen as a holistic concept we also have to focus on the psychological side of health. Mental illnesses affect around one in every three people and an individual?s gender is a critical determinant of mental health and mental illness. Women are much more likely to develop mental health problems then males do. The most predominant of these disorders are depression, anxiety and somatic complaints.