Borderline Personality Disorder in the Elderly

Every person has its own character. Some people are introvert and others are extrovert, some are very neurotic and others not. Personality is unmatched in every person as there are not 2 persons alike. Sometimes personality has some traits that make it impossible to function properly in society. When this is the case we often speak of personality disorders.

It is strange to say that when you are a psychologist you will give every person you meet a mini-diagnoses. You do not do this on purpose, it is instinctively looking at everyone you meet how the person is and what traits he has. When you work at a nursery home this will not work at all as most persons have some traits that make it impossible to function. Most elderly also have a multitude of disorders. This makes it very hard to diagnose some one with just one disorder.

Although personality disorders are very common in middle aged people, they are not that often diagnosed in a nursery home. This is probably so because a doctor will more likely look at a kidney malfunction than at someone his personality. However, there is one sort of personality disorder that is not likely to miss and that one is the Borderline Personality disorder.

You can easily recognize someone with Borderline personality disorder as these persons are very good in claiming your attention on a passive aggressive way. They know very well how to manipulate you and others and in that way get as much attention as needed. Dealing with these disorders is very hard as a person with borderline is not able to empathize feelings of others.

The best way in dealing with borderline personality disorder is by giving a lot of structure to the person. Always tell what the rules are and that everybody should stick with the rules. A borderlines will try to find the edge and it is best to clearly state those borders.

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