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Life can often feel chaotic and overwhelming, with emotions taking control and relationships becoming difficult to navigate. Sometimes, our sense of self can feel lost or unclear. If this feels all too familiar and is not just a passing phase, you may be experiencing borderline personality disorder (BPD).
BPD is a complex mental health condition that affects emotional regulation, self-image, and relationships, often leading to impulsive behaviors. While these challenges can seem overwhelming, there is hope for lasting relief.
At Clearview’s Women’s Treatment Center in Southern California, we specialize in providing comprehensive BPD treatment. As one of the country’s leading BPD centers, we are dedicated to helping individuals find sustainable healing and reclaim their lives.
What Does BPD Look Like?
According to the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder, over 14 million American adults experience BPD each year, affecting both men and women equally.
Diagnosis can be complex, as BPD often co-occurs with other conditions such as substance abuse and addiction, eating disorders, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and other personality disorders. More than 50% of individuals with BPD also struggle with depression. Common symptoms of BPD include:
- Difficulty regulating emotions
- Extreme anger, anxiety, and depression
- Engaging in compulsive, and often dangerous, behaviors, including substance abuse, binge eating, and self-harmful behaviors
- Paranoia or dissociation
- Tumultuous relationships
- Frantic attempts to avoid abandonment, both real and imagined
Because BPD is a serious and complex condition, getting the right treatment is crucial. At Clearview, our specialized programs are designed to address the unique challenges of BPD, offering comprehensive care to help individuals find lasting relief and regain control of their lives.
Effective Therapy for BPD
Untreated BPD can lead to serious consequences, including an increased risk of self-harm, suicide, and violent behavior. Moreover, BPD symptoms can exacerbate other mental and physical health issues if left untreated. Fortunately, significant advancements have been made in understanding and treating BPD over the past decade.
Our residential treatment centers employ the most effective and evidence-based methods for BPD treatment. The gold standard is dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), which has proven successful in helping individuals manage their symptoms.
In addition to DBT, we utilize acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and mindfulness techniques to provide comprehensive care tailored to each individual’s needs.
Treatment Options
Research shows that residential borderline personality disorder treatment can help individuals with BPD experience a dramatic decrease in the severity of their anxiety, depression, and suicide attempts. Borderline personality treatment can also help clients improve their interpersonal relationships and have a better handle on their emotions.
Clearview offers multiple borderline personality disorder treatment programs, including our Women’s Mental Health program and multiple outpatient treatment programs, to give each client the best chance for a successful recovery. Utilizing world-renowned treatment methods, our compassionate staff helps our clients build the skills necessary to sustain their long-term health and thrive.
Borderline Personality Disorder FAQs
The most important thing to remember if you’re suffering from borderline personality disorder is that it’s not your fault. Research from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) suggests the exact causes of BPD remain unknown, though both environmental and biological factors are thought to play a role. No specific gene has been shown to directly cause BPD, but various genes have been identified as playing a role in its development. The brain’s functioning, seen in MRI testing, is often different in people with BPD, suggesting a neurological basis for the disorder.
Self-injurious behavior on its own doesn’t lead to suicide. However, people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder may engage in a variety of life-threatening behaviors. These include burning and cutting to help express or regulate emotions, or as a form of self-punishment. If you or someone you know is causing self-inflicted harm, it’s vital to seek borderline personality disorder treatment immediately.
The American Journal of Psychiatry reports that while borderline personality disorder is a serious mental illness, it’s by no means a life sentence. Research has shown that the prognosis for BPD has improved over the past decade. With proper BPD treatment, almost half of those diagnosed with BPD will not meet the criteria for diagnosis just two years later. Ten years later, 88% of people who were once diagnosed with BPD no longer meet criteria for a diagnosis. With the right kind of treatment at BPD residential treatment centers, including the best therapy for BPD, your symptoms can improve, too.
Common symptoms of BPD include intense fear of abandonment, unstable relationships, impulsive behaviors, self-harm or suicidal behaviors, mood swings, chronic feelings of emptiness, difficulty controlling anger, and severe dissociation or paranoia in response to stress.
BPD can make daily life challenging due to emotional instability and intense mood swings. Relationships may become volatile, and individuals might struggle with maintaining employment or responsibilities. Difficulty regulating emotions can lead to impulsive behaviors, self-harm, and frequent crises that impact personal and professional life.
Untreated BPD can lead to ongoing emotional turmoil, worsening symptoms, and an increased risk of self-harm or suicide. Relationships may continue to be strained, and substance abuse or other harmful behaviors could develop. Early intervention with treatment can greatly improve long-term outcomes.
