Borderline Personality Disorder
Other Treatment
Professional counselling is an important part of treatment for borderline personality disorder. Other therapies, such as relaxation techniques, may also help you recover more quickly and improve your quality of life. Family therapy may help you and those who care about you to deal with borderline personality disorder.
Other Treatment Choices
Borderline personality disorder is often successfully treated with professional counselling such as:10
- Dialectical behaviour therapy, which helps reduce destructive behaviours by teaching healthy ways to adapt to and cope with challenges and feelings of frustration or lack of power.
- Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), which focuses on changing certain thoughts and behaviour patterns to control the symptoms of a condition.
- Psychodynamic therapy, which focuses on uncovering or understanding your past to gain insight into your actions and current behaviour. This technique assumes that problems with behaviour are caused by internal conflicts that you are not consciously aware of.
- Family therapy, which can be helpful in educating your family about your condition and providing support to those who care about you and are also affected by your condition. For example, it is sometimes difficult for a parent with borderline personality disorder to be nurturing, even to his or her own child.
- Support groups, where you and people you care about are able to meet others who share similar challenges.
What To Think About
A critical part of the treatment of borderline personality disorder is long-term professional counselling. It is important that you build a stable relationship with your counsellor to successfully continue treatment. Your condition may cause you to go from viewing your counsellor as nurturing to cruel, especially when you are asked to try to change a behaviour. Try to find a counsellor who has special training in treating borderline personality disorder.
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| Author: | Alison Allen Jeannette Curtis | Last Updated: June 27, 2007 |
| Medical Review: | Anne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine Gisele Ferguson, MD, FRCPC - Psychiatry, Child and Youth Psychiatry Lisa S. Weinstock, MD - Psychiatry | |
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