MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Borderline Personality Disorder
As one of the most misunderstood, most stigmatized, and most misdiagnosed mental health disorders, borderline personality disorder (BPD) all too often leaves those diagnosed with it, as well as their loved ones, feeling confused, alone, and hopeless. Solara Health strives to free clients from these feelings through a comprehensive, nuanced, and specialized treatment program, which combines individual psychotherapy, group therapy, holistic therapies, and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT).
Through these several therapeutic modalities, clients learn the tools needed to cope with upsetting situations, develop a healthy self-image, handle and solve interpersonal conflict, and come to a more complete, nuanced view of the world. With these tools, clients come to learn that they are capable of lasting change, allowing them to begin the process of healing and develop emotional security.
Turning Turmoil into Harmony
Borderline personality disorder is characterized by two main traits: (1) an innately insecure, even unstable, sense of self, and (2) an inability to control both emotions and behaviors. There is no single cause of BPD; rather, this disorder is the result of a mixture of genetic and environmental factors. Traumatic experiences in childhood, such as abuse, neglect, severe criticism or invalidation, unpredictability, and abandonment, are common in the lives of those with BPD.
Traumatic events like these can prevent healthy bonding and development in childhood, which in turn prevents healthy emotional development in adulthood. As a result, those with BPD are unable to regulate their emotions, resulting in outbursts and mood swings that can damage, or even prevent, meaningful relationships with coworkers, friends, and family. This, in turn, can lead to distorted views of the self and of the world, causing feelings of isolation, hopelessness, and defeat.
Symptoms of BPD vary, and can include any of the following:
- Intense mood swings, or disproportionate reactions (such as extreme anger)
- Extreme and/or turbulent interpersonal relationships
- Black-and-white view of the world
- Distorted sense of self
- Fear of abandonment
- Self-destructive behaviors, including self-harm, substance abuse, reckless spending, disordered eating, and risky sexual behavior
- Feelings of worthlessness, isolation, or hopelessness
At Solara, we understand that although BPD has mood-related symptoms, it is a separate and distinct illness from mood disorders, requiring its own specialized treatment. As such, our program is specifically designed to be small, structured, and encouraging, creating an environment where clients can work through a variety of therapeutic modalities to better understand their illness and its effects on them, learn tools for handling internal and external stressors, and practice expressing emotions in appropriate and effective ways. Clients can thus begin to heal and create more emotionally fulfilling, stable, and peaceful lives.
While our clients make considerable and rapid improvements, borderline personality disorder is often a long-term condition. Understanding this through years of experience, Solara Health provides the entire spectrum of care from in-residence to outpatient to transitional living to continuing, customized case management of long-term aftercare planning to ensure maximum, long-term success. Solara Health is committed and dedicated to freeing our clients from the clutches of borderline personality disorder, and our program is created to ensure this.
Contact us now to start the healing process.
