Depression, and Its Connection to Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder has, among other symptoms, depressive traits, in that the sufferer is subject to feelings of failure, rejection and seeks out isolation. Other symptoms include;

1. The certainty that people have hidden motives towards them.

2. Strong feelings that they'll be exploited by people for evil reasons.

3. They're quite unable to work with other people, mainly because of the two foregoing reasons.

4. They have a very low opinion of themselves, as has the person who suffers depression, and

5 They're generally hostile to people.

While they're full of suspicion regarding others, they're quite unable to understand that this suspicion is false, that it's in their minds and bears no relation whatever to reality. They endure cyclical episodes of anxiety and depression, but these moods don't last very long. They are, if you like, a by product of Borderline Personality Disorder.

I've stated this desire for isolation, but nevertheless being alone frightens them. Patients are always suicide risks and should be on suicide watch the whole time.

It's thought that between 1% to 3% of American adults suffer from this condition, although there's very little positive data to back this up.

Borderline Personality Disorder was so named in the 1940s and 50s, because it was thought that it was on the border between neurosis and psychosis. This has since been disproved. It's considered such a serious illness, that the U.S. House of Representatives has declared May as Borderline Personality Disorder Month.

What makes matters doubly difficult is that so little is known of the condition. What is known is based purely on empirical research. In the majority of cases, the sufferer shows lability, or changeability, between anger and anxiety or between depression and anxiety. They find it very difficult to control their emotions. The sad part is that most of them yearn for a loving, caring relationship, but ruin their chances due to their sudden outbursts of anger, their mood swings and an impulsiveness that pushes other people away.

Another strange symptom is that at times they look at themselves as thoroughly rotten, even evil, people. At other times that they simply don't exist at all. The closest thing to relationships they have are those of love/hate. Considering that they see everything in black and white, this makes sense. There are no grey areas.

Grey areas, of course, are vital in our make-up, to act as compromise. Usually without realizing it, we compromise twenty or thirty times a day. If we didn't, we'd be at each other's throats the whole time and this is precisely the condition experienced by the Borderline Personality. They make a statement with which if you disagree, they fly into a fit of anger.

Like the person who suffers a Bipolar condition, the Borderline Personality tends to engage in risky behaviour. They love speed, driving cars as fast as they're able. They often engage in gambling and drug-taking, the latter in dangerously high dosages.

The only causes that the doctors have been able to put forward to date, is the rather lame one of genetics. The father had the condition, therefore his son may well be subject to it as well. Environmental, a history of childhood abuse. And brain abnormalities. The last reason seems pretty obvious. The point is, which part of the brain, or combinations of parts, are causing the trouble?

Serotonin, they say, may not be functioning properly, but all this is grasping at straws. Together with schizophrenia, this is an illness which should be at the top of the list for research, so that a positive cure may be found. It wrecks the lives of too many people, not just the poor sufferers, but their families as well

Mike Bond, this time discussing one of the most unpleasant conditions there are; Borderline Personality Disorder. He notes that both depression and anxiety play their part in the illness, and we strongly suggest visiting his site at [http://www.panattack.com] to see how you may rid yourself of anxiety and panic attacks without the use of drugs. You'll find an excellent mini-course there that's absolutely free [http://www.panattack.com].

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