Borderline personality disorder is a mental illness. It is characterized by capricious mood and unstable behavior. Patients show emotional ups and downs, depression, anger or impulses. They have bisectional opinion toward other people, either black or white, no gray area. They often use threats or self-injury to control interpersonal relations and have repeated suicidal threats or self-mutilation behaviors. Sometimes they commit suicide only to attract attention or to manipulate others. Behavior may have excessive spending, promiscuity, substance abuse, theft, reckless driving or binge eating. Some patients have hallucinations or delusions. Drug therapy and psychotherapy are the main treatment methods for borderline personality disorder. Psychotherapy is gaining more attention from psychiatrists.
How is Borderline personality disorder treated in practice?