Trying To Understand The Causes Of Emotionally Unstable Borderline Personality Disorder?

To start with, there are three main causes for this high affective irritability in BPD.

The first cause is presented in scientific studies as a mild inherited inability or deficiency of emotional regulation. However scientists are unsure if these deficiencies are really causing borderline personality or they are only a consequence. Future studies will have to elucidate this puzzle.

Secondly are the learned aptitudes of emotion management or the lack of them that is. They are constituted by mental strategies to adapt interpretations so that the emotions become less painful, or mental tactics of realistic and logical perceptions of the world, self, and others.

The third group of triggering factors in emotionally unstable borderline personality disorder is made up by particular patterns of thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes involving the self and others in different life challenges and situations.

The most important aspect of these thoughts and beliefs is that they originate in invalidating early life encounters with close persons or caregivers. They are comprised by physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuses, deprecating attitudes and behaviors, disrespect, or callousness.

These thinking patterns are triggered on every occasion when something similar to the original causing situation comes up.

Since the original situation is part of history, it means that the resulted unhealthy thought patterns are independent, so they can be replaced with new healthy ones through the exact same process of learning and habit creation.

So what can you do to take over control of your emotionally unstable borderline personality disorder once again?

For instance you could set out to find realistic and logical reasons and/or motivations that led your close ones to behave with you in those invalidating ways. This is a particularly helpful exercise since our brain is constantly "looking" for the sense in the things that happen or happened to us. This exercise will help you find the needed evidence that prove you that you are not the reason for all the wrong and painful things you had to endure in your early years.

There are other specific exercises as well to enhance this process.

Consequently, after becoming familiar with the new healthy and positive ways in which you see yourself, you will move on to the part of actually doing things differently in such a way that they will become reinforcements to your newly found healthy personality.

BPD can be treated successfully thanks to recent discoveries in the science of psychology as well as to new very efficient techniques and strategies which address the core cognitive schemas.

By the way, if you want to start implementing the necessary steps toward you recovery from BPD, I have a free eBook titled "Surviving The Borderline Hellhole"!

And click on the link if you want to find out more about the Emotionally Unstable Borderline Personality Disorder!

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