What is the difference between regular depression/anxiety and borderline personality disorder?
Posted on Nov 22, 2008 under anxiety depression |What is the difference between regular depression/anxiety and borderline personality disorder?
This is a great question. Some of the similarities are sadness, irritability, and mood swings but i would say that borderline personality disorder is much more severe because of the following:
frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
very unstable relationships (love-hate)
Unstable identity- they change according to the people they are around so others will like them
Suicidal behavior is very common
They are very impulsive- they will do things without thinking, often stealing or having random sex.
Hope that helps!
Dr. S.
November 7th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
depression is when you cant feel anything.
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November 7th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
This is a great question. Some of the similarities are sadness, irritability, and mood swings but i would say that borderline personality disorder is much more severe because of the following:
frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
very unstable relationships (love-hate)
Unstable identity- they change according to the people they are around so others will like them
Suicidal behavior is very common
They are very impulsive- they will do things without thinking, often stealing or having random sex.
Hope that helps!
Dr. S.
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DSM IV
November 7th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I have all of those that are listed but add one more post traumatic disorder. I am on lots of medications that help me live my life. you will get through it. if you get the meds you need,
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November 7th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Negative emotions (like sadness, stress, anger, etc.) causes your Serotonin production to be low; when your Serotonin level is low, you are more prone to getting Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Depression, etc.
Medication like Antidepressants (SSRI - Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) helps to boost Serotonin level.
But there are natural ways to do it without medication. There’s this strange herb called “St John’s Wort” - it is said to be more effective than Prozac. No, it is not for mild depression only and ignore those sayings. In fact, it does help anxiety and panic-attacks as St John’s Wort works like prozac. Other natural ways will be exercise, diet, more exposure to light, etc.
The problem is that, even if your Serotonin is balanced… you have that “learned behavior” in your mind. You need to break that initial cycle to destroy that learned behavior - Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) does this. A technique that you can use without CBT will be Distraction… There are several other techniques to help cope them!
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http://PanicAttackResearch.blogspot.com
November 7th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
depression can be cured, borderline personality disorder is not cureable although there is a tendency for people to grow out of it in their 40’s. Also insurance companies will pay fro treatment of depression but not borderline personality disorder unless the patient does something that endangers her health,
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30 yrs experience
November 8th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Without reading the above posts, my knowledge has gathered that Borderline Personality Disorder has alot to do with interpersonal relationships, trust and boundaries as well as mood destabilization. Rapid cycling could be a term used to describe a BPD. I recently was diagnosed as BPD. I see it now in my past relationships (with husbands/boyfriends.) I am also Bipolar with Attention Deficit Disorder. My therapist says my trust was broken at an early age (parents divorced when I was 3).The borderline characteristics in me come out when my trust boundary is broken. I become loud and violent (I like to throw things) but not violent toward myself or others. Bipolar is controlled with 7.5 Abilify. ADD is controlled with 40 mg Adderall. I also take Klonopin, Wellbutrin, Prozac and Lamictal.
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Personal experiences, years of therapy, Yahoo and MANY web resources, reading as much as I can find about it