Borderline Personality Disorder

Before these past few days, I thought that depression described just about every personality disorder. When people are moody or cut themselves, I thought they were depressed. Now that I've read this article I know that this is definitely not the case. Borderline personality disorder (BPS) is the disorder that doctors fear most. 75% of the people diagnosed with BPS hurt themselves and 6% end up committing suicide. The elements that make BPS so scary to psychologists is the patient's inablity to calibrate their feelings and behavior. The polar opposites in behavior that someone with BPS shows is astounding. They may react to something with either no emotion or they may become so enraged that they hurt people.

The reason why psychologists are so afraid of people with BPS is because there are so many problems going on in the mind that he/she is not able to focus on just one particular thing to cure. So often times, people with BPS are overmedicated. Many times, these drugs create feelings that do not allow the person the many feelings. Meaning that they are so distraught that they have no emotions and are not able to feel any physical pain. So they are desperate, which causes them to hurt themselves in way or another. Overall, this article is about people with BPS and how many more people are affected by this disorder than many think. And the more society changes, the more people are going to feel left out. So many psychologists are coming up with ways that will help people suffering from BPS.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1870491-2,00.html