Borderline Personality Disorder Intro: AGD: What do Amy Winehouse, Angelina Jolie, Princess Diana, and I have in common? We all have Borderline Personality Disorder. I am diagnosed with Borderline Personality disorder, as is my sister, so I know how it feels to have it effect your body and your life. Thesis: Today I am going to tell you some things about how Borderline Personality Disorder effects your mind, body, and the people around you Preview: First we have to go inside the mind to see how this disorder effects your emotions and how you think Body: 1. How BPD effects your brain a. According to Psycom.net, some of the mental symptoms of BPD are, having an unstable or dysfunctional self-image or a distorted sense of self, feelings of isolation, boredom and emptiness, difficulty feeling empathy for others, and strong feelings of anxiety, worry and depression b. Borderline Personality disorder can have a physical effect on your brain. A study by the University of Toronto shows that there are differences between a healthy brain and a brain with BPD i. Anthony C. Ruocco, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and program in neuroscience, and his team evaluated data from 11 already published studies and proved a number of significant differences between people with BPD and those without. ii. The area in the brain called the insula, the part that helps determine how intensely we experience negative emotions is extremely in people with BPD. However, regions
Secondly, Rosa’s symptoms associated with BPD are: instable relationships; impulsivity; frantic efforts to avoid abandonment; unstable and intense interpersonal relationships; unstable sense of self; self harming behaviors (over spending, burning, suicide, sex, substance use, and binge eating); chronic feelings of emptiness; transient, stress-related paranoid ideation; and affective instability (panic, anger, and despair) (American Psychiatric Association,
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The results from numerous family studies suggest that borderline personality disorder is more prevalent in families with the disorder and somehow linked with mood disorders. Research on the possible cause for borderline personality disorder is still at the very early stages of discovery. Symptoms Diagnostic Criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder (2012) you must show signs of at least five of the following: 1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment 2.
Psychosis is a strange phenomenon as those who have it don’t realize they do. Often times, psychosis can be cured with therapy, but sometimes, it requires medication. Rog Phillips, in his story The Yellow Pill, addresses both these methods of curing an individual with psychosis, but the reality is that one man needed both therapy and medication as the true setting is in on Earth. Mental illness impacts everyone at some point in one’s life. If severe enough, having a disorder can cloud one’s judgement to the point of committing acts of terror unknowingly.
Borderline personality disorder affects approximately 1.6% of the United States population, which is roughly 5.2 million people diagnosed with it. It is a serious mental illness characterized by an inability to regulate emotional responses and moods, impacting self-image and interpersonal relationships. People with borderline personality disorder often have bad habits such as spending issues, substance abuse issues, and sex addiction issues and they often perform recklessly while driving. This impulsive behavior causes them to have frequent interactions with the law. This dissertation will examine and prove that the influences borderline personality disorder has on court decisions, does not affect people’s competency and responsibility of their alleged crimes.
Liam Delaney Mr. Musgrove Senior comp Lit 16 February 2023 LGBTQ+ Mental Health: An Overview of Current Research and Implications for Practice LGBTQ+ individuals are a diverse group of people who face various mental health challenges due to the stigma and discrimination they experience. Despite progress toward greater acceptance and inclusion in recent years, many LGBTQ+ individuals continue to face discrimination, harassment, and violence, which can negatively impact their mental health. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of current research on LGBTQ+ mental health, highlighting key findings and implications for practice. Studies consistently show that LGBTQ+ individuals experience higher rates of mental health problems than their
Page Break Bibliography Anti Social Personality Disorder. (n.d.). Retrieved April 22, 2016, from http://www.worldlibrary.org/articles/antisocial_personality_disorder Antisocial personality disorder. (2016).
People’s actions as well as behaviors are all developed as they grow up. As they grow up children begin to develop the same behaviors or actions from their parents. Some adults and children develop psychological disorders. These are mainly caused by Biological influences: evolution, individual genes, brain structure and chemistry; Psychological influences: stress, trauma, learned helplessness, mood-related perceptions and memories; and Social Cultural influences: roles, and expectations (pg.508). As in Mommie Dearest, Joan (Faye Dunaway) has multiple disorders that later on are developed by her daughter Christina (Mara Hobel).
These factors are emotional dysregulation, unstable cognitive functioning, and unstable sense of self and unstable interpersonal relationships (Lien et al, 2004). On the other hand, the neurochemical factor is considered to be vulnerable to people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder based on a research study. Therefore, it suggests that when the behaviors of aggression and impulsive which are characterized as the traits of a borderline personality disorder patient, are associated with the decrease in the levels of serotonin ("Etiology - What causes BPD? | Borderline Personality Disorder Clinician Resource
I. Introduction A. Attention getter – How many of you know what the mental illness of schizophrenia is? B. Credibility statement – I have been around someone with schizophrenia since I was 10 years old. C. Thesis statement – Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that has affected people throughout history in which people should be more knowledgeable of. D. Relevance statement – Someone with this illness has trouble distinguishing between what’s real and what is imaginary.
I. Bipolar disorder is a severe illness because they are different from the normal ups and downs that everyone goes through time to time. 1. Types of bipolar disorder a. Bipolar I disorder. You’ve had at least one manic episode. The manic episode may be preceded by or followed by hypomanic or major depressive episodes.
So what is bipolar disorder? A. “It is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks”, (National Institute of Mental Health). (TRANSITION: Now we know what bipolar disorder is, what are the factors that causes it?) II.
Says Janine T. Ogden, Jean Prokott, “BPD is also characterized by emotional instability; a person with BPD may fluctuate quickly between mood extremes and engage in frequent inappropriate displays of anger.” Many experience symptoms as difficulty regulating emotions, extreme anger, anxiety, and depression. Engaging in compulsive, and often dangerous behaviors, and self-harmful behaviors. Borderline personality disorder begins off with a distrust in a relationship. The disorder affects both men and woman equally.
BPD is a mental disorder that consist of unstable moods, behaviors and relationships. It usually begins or manifest when a person is an adolescent. Individuals with this disorder tend to be very impulsive, reckless, have problems regulating their emotions and have a distorted self image of themselves. The cause of this personality disorder has strongly to do with genetics and heredity. Also social and cultural factors may contribute and increase the risk for BPD.
I believe that it would be most appropriate to diagnose Miss Diagnosis with Borderline Personality Disorder, Moderate Bulimia. Borderline Personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of instability across multiple domains in life, including interpersonal relationship, self-image, and affect. People who have this disorder make decisions in the moment with no prior thought or planning. They are very impulsive. Additionally, the have a strong fear of abandonment, which often leads to desperate attempts to keep people close and irrational reason for ending relationships before the person can get abandoned.