How to treat borderline personality disorder?

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About 9% of Americans have personality disorder. If they have this disease, it is very uncomfortable. It refers to a long-term, unhealthy and rigid thinking mode. Among the ten personality disorders (including obsessive-compulsive disorder, paranoid personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder), borderline personality disorder is often the most easily misunderstood. Now I will talk about how to treat borderline personality disorder? Let me tell you this.

How to treat borderline personality disorder?

First, psychotherapy is different from some mental diseases. The main treatment of borderline personality disorder is psychotherapy, not medication. Dialectical behavior therapy (a special form of cognitive behavior therapy) can better treat borderline personality disorder. Dialectical behavior therapy is a very popular and mature treatment method in the practice of international clinical psychology, and it is also the most effective treatment method for patients with severe emotional regulation dysfunction such as borderline personality disorder. It improves the patients' mindfulness skills, interpersonal efficacy skills, emotion regulation skills and pain tolerance skills to improve their emotion and behavior control ability.

Second, schema therapy is also effective in the treatment of borderline personality disorder. It focuses on the early maladjustment schema and maladjustment coping style of patients, and through a series of treatment strategies, helps patients change the early maladjustment schema and form a healthier behavior style. Schema therapy is an integrated therapy model based on traditional cognitive-behavioral therapy, combining attachment theory, object relationship theory, Gestalt theory and constructivism theory. Its advantages of integration bring great room for the development of patients' mental health in the future.

Third: the reason why some patients have borderline personality disorder is likely to be brain dysplasia. For example, if this type of patients want to solve the problem, and it is likely that they will be relieved by surgical treatment, they can take some drugs to control the disease.

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Borderline personality disorder, patients in daily life should pay more attention to learning, adjust their emotions, when feeling angry and depressed state is the best can shift their attention, usually actively cooperate with the doctor treatment. Otherwise, once the disease is serious, it is easy to harm the society.