Calda Clinic: Borderline Personality Disorder

Calda Clinic along with its international medical team and network of highly qualified experts, guarantees a customizedprogram offering individual 1:1 premium care to help a patient to have control over his/her anger, fear, depression, anxiety etc.…

Borderline personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of instability in affect regulation, impulse control, interpersonal relationships, and self-image. People with BPD may experience extreme mood swings and can display uncertainty about who they are. As a result, their interests and values can change rapidly.

Clinical signs of the disorder include:

*  Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
*  A pattern of intense and unstable relationships with family, friends, and loved ones, often swinging from     extreme closeness and love (idealization) to extreme dislike or anger (devaluation)
*  Impulsive and often dangerous behaviors, such as spending sprees, unsafe sex, substance abuse, reckless     driving, and binge eating
*  Recurring suicidal behaviors or threats or self-harming behavior, such as cutting
*  Intense and highly changeable moods, with each episode lasting from a few hours to a few days
*  Having stress-related paranoid thoughts
*  Having severe dissociative symptoms, such as feeling cut off from oneself, observing oneself from outside     the body, or losing touch with reality

Causal factors are only partly known, but genetic factors and adverse events during childhood, such as physical and sexual abuse, contribute to the development of the disorder.

Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment

Calda Clinic believes in treating the BPD patients and involves Dialectical behavior therapy and psychodynamic programs that are effective treatments for out-of-control patients, and drug therapy can reduce depression, anxiety, and impulsive aggression.

Calda Clinic helps the patient with the following types of psychotherapy:

*  Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT):

CBT may help reduce a range of mood and anxiety symptoms and reduce the number of suicidal or self-harming behaviors.

*  Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT):

DBT also teaches skills to control intense emotions, reduce self-destructive behaviors, and improve relationships.

*  Schema-Focused Therapy:

This approach is based on the idea that BPD stems from a dysfunctional self-image—possibly brought on by negative childhood experiences—that affects how people react to their environment, interact with others, and cope with problems or stress.

*  Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS):

This program aims to educate family members, significant others, and health care professionals about BPD and gives them guidance on how to interact consistently with the person with the disorder using the STEPPS approach and terminology.