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    not have any experience working with those suffering from addiction or with those suffering from personality disorder; therefore, I would find working with individuals who abuse substances and who have also been diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder to be very challenging. According to Goldstein (as cited in Miller, 2015), individuals suffering from addiction as well as bipolar disorders are difficult to treat as BPD individuals experience more issues including self-injurious behaviour

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    Girl, Interrupted by Borderline Personality Disorder Girl, Interrupted, an autobiography, follows Sussanna Kaysen an eighteen year old girl who finds herself being escorted to a taxi and being sent to McLean Psychiatric Hospital in Massachusetts. Only after a brief twenty minute interview with a psychiatrist she had just met regarding her failing grades, depression, suicidal attempts as well as her inappropriate relationship with her high school english teacher, she was convinced that

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    Running head: Borderline Personality Disorder The Study of Borderline Personality Disorder Olivia Wright Blue Ridge Community College Abstract 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

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    Borderline Personality is a disorder that affects a significantly large percentage of the population with a prevalence rate of up to 5.9%. (DSM, 2000) Out of that percentage about 75% of patients diagnosed with BPD are female. It is an illness that is both misunderstood and given quite a bad stigma. It is difficult to live with and those that have it struggle to maintain personal and business relationships. Even with the high demand for treatment it is a disorder that is hard to treat however when

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    Individuals that suffer from borderline personality disorder often undergo dramatic personality changes when faced with an event where they feel they are being deserted by loved ones. To be exact, “The perception of impending separation or rejection, or the loss of external structure, can lead to profound changes in self-image, cognition, and behavior” (American Psychiatric Association 663). This can be seen in Act 3, Scene 3 of Othello. The text states, Yet, tis’ the plague of the great ones;

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    this case study paper, suffers from a psychological disorder called borderline personality disorder. Someone with borderline personality disorder often has characteristics 1such as a deep sense of emptiness, and unstable self- image, a history of turbulent and unstable relationships, dramatic mood changes, impulsivity, difficulty regulating negative emotions, self-injurious behavior, and recurrent suicidal behaviors. The 5term borderline personality originally was used to describe individuals who were

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    Borderline personality disorder Both of these disorders share the ongoing need for diligence, emotional instability, and doubtful behavior. Narcissistic individuals have a higher sense of grandness than a person with BPD. A person with BPD shows self-destructive behaviors and doesn’t care about themselves unlike a person with NPD (Ambardar, 2016b). Antisocial personality disorder Both ASPD and NPD share the same qualities when it comes to not showing any empathy and disregarding the needs and

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    Borderline personality disorder is a serious personality disorder. “Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental disorder marked by a pattern of ongoing instability in moods, behavior, self-image, and functioning.” Approximately two percent of the population suffers from this disorder. Six million people alone in the United States. Women are more likely to have borderline personality disorder than men. One out of every thirty three women are likely to suffer from this disorder. Out of

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    Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is estimated to affect 1-2% of the total population and 20% of psychiatric inpatients (Wershler, 2017), it is also the personality disorder most frequently seen in treatment settings. Even with borderline personality disorder being one of the common personality disorders that is diagnosed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V), it is still quite misunderstood, even by professionals themselves. One of the biggest misconceptions

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    After a thorough assessment, its determined that Jane suffers from borderline personality disorder. As referenced in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, "border line personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts" (American Psychiatric Association, 2013 Pg. 663). As seen with Jane, her first onset could

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