CLINICAL PAPER

Clinical Paper - A Personal Journey into addiction & Mental illness

Clinical Paper - A Personal Journey into addiction & Mental illness

The perception of a separation or rejection or impending loss of external structures can trigger at the person with borderline personality disorder changes the image of oneself, one's affect, perceptions and behaviors. I felt very sensitive to context and environment and may experience intense fear of abandonment, as well as inappropriate anger, even when they are placed before that time-limited separation or when they had to live unanticipated changes in what they had planned. They sometimes believe that these separations occur because they are wicked. This fear of abandonment demonstrates their inability to endure the loneliness and their need to be surrounded by me. These frantic efforts to avoid abandonment may lead to impulsive actions such as suicidal behavior or self-harm. It is believed that the fear of abandonment is a symptom resulting from an insecure early attachment and could be inherited. We must distinguish this from separation anxiety, more widespread.

I noticed that me like myself; with borderline personality disorder often had difficulty investing the family (that is to say potential sources of care or protection) otherwise than idealizing them (if gratification) or by devaluing (if there is no reward) (Soares, 2010). This refers to dualistic thinking black or white or the notion of splitting. When the anger felt towards a loved one is threatening a split perception occurs in order to preserve what is good in this close. The instability of relationships also stems from the difficulty of the victim to control his emotions and manage his impulses, his difficulty tolerating loneliness and fear of rejection.

This disorder stems from an unstable self-image or indistinct. I like me, with personality disorder often hold their values, habits and attitudes of those with whom they are. These problems are amplified identity in the context of interpersonal relationships because I had not learned to identify their own emotions or to decode the motives and intentions of their actions (Lamph, 2011) (Good, 2012). Impulsivity the person with personality disorder often affects self-destructive or at least intentions. Impulsive behavior often results in alcohol abuse or addiction, bulimia, safer sex and dangerous driving. This differs from the impulsivity found in manic-depression or anti-social.

Suicidal behavior or self-aggressive recurrent (attempts, gestures, threats) are characteristic of personality disorder. This diagnosis comes so naturally to mind in the presence of recurrent self-destructive behavior (Dutton, Denny-Keys & Sells, 2011) (Bhar, Beck & Butler, 2012). These can start to manifest during adolescence and are usually precipitated by threats of separation or rejection or, if you force the person to take responsibility it will not. This criterion is used to establish the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder in patients with symptoms of depression or anxiety.

Early on, clinicians had noticed the intensity, volatility and range of emotions expressed with personality disorder. Initially, it was this emotional instability associated with mood disorders (depression and bipolar disorder). However, these changes in mood (intense episodic depression, ...