Borderline Personality Disorder

HOSA Behavioral Health 2025

BPD is characterized by?

Difficulties regulating emotions

People with BPD experience emotions __________?

Intensely and for long periods of time

People with BPD struggle to return to _______ after emotionally triggering events

healthy emotional baselines

?% of US adults have BPD?

1.4%

?% of diagnosed cases are women

75%

Fear of abandonment

Unstable relationships

Unstable self-image

Impulsive behaviors

Self-harm

Depression

Anger

Symptoms of BPD

Causes

Genetics, traumatic life events, impaired function of emotional regulation system (in brain)

Treatments

Psychotherapy, Medications, Short-term hospitalization

What types of therapy are often used?

Dialectal behavioral therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy

Commonly used medications?

Mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, antidepressants