Borderline: a common disorder, but little-known
Kirsis Díaz
SD. There are people who go through their daily lives, without knowing that they suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), one of the most devastating ailments among the personality disorders, since of the patients diagnosed with BPD, some 10% commit suicide.
"The person with this disorder presents problems with his emotions and with interpersonal relationships. He is afraid of abandonment, and possesses a lack of self-esteem," explains Doctor Lois Choi-Kain during a visit to Diario Libre.
Choi-Kain, the director of the Institute for Training on Personality Disorders of the McLean Hospital, affiliated with Harvard University, stressed that these persons create a dependency towards their friends, relatives or partners, and experience a crisis, if they think that these do not love them.
The patients with this condition suffer and make those surrounding them suffer, especially their relatives and their partners, due to the great emotional demands that they place upon their significant others.
Although this affliction affects men and women equally, men can be more dangerous, because they become aggressive.
"It presents in 75% of the women and is most common in men who use drugs," stresses a report supplied by the Dominican psychiatrist Rafael Garcia Alvarez, who together with Doctor Choi is trying to raise awareness of the ailment and the manners of treating and preventing it in the country.
The idea is that the ailment be identified earlier, in order that treatment which generally makes use of cognitive and behavioral or therapies is easier.
Both methods are effective but they require a lot of resources by the clinic in order to treat it.
"It implies hours of training, supplies, a therapist that can speak with the patient 24/7," Choi noted.
Few specialists
Both in the United States as well as in the country there are not many specialists who work with this ailment, so that they are trying to integrate them to this work.
According to medical experts, in the country there are persons with this ailment, but they have not been receiving treatment focused on the condition.
"Supposedly there are many more cases both here as well as in the United States, but they are not identified or diagnosed, perhaps because there are no sufficient resources or the doctors do not have the training to treat them effectively," Choi underlined.
The international expert in the handling of this condition yesterday presented a group of psychiatric and psychology professionals the conference: "Borderline Personality Disorder and Mood, Confusion, Co - morbidity and Controversial Disorders."
History
Starting in 1970, psychiatrists determined that the persons who present extreme, auto destructive emotions and stormy interpersonal relations suffer from an ailment related to their personality.
The term "borderline," came about because it was thought that they were atypical or were at the edge of other ailments.
The person who began to speak of this disorder was Adolph Stern, in 1938. One of the things that was established is that those patients do not respond correctly to treatments that are used for patients with psychotic or neurological disorders.
"The person with this disorder presents problems with his emotions and with interpersonal relationships. He is afraid of abandonment, and possesses a lack of self-esteem," explains Doctor Lois Choi-Kain during a visit to Diario Libre.
Choi-Kain, the director of the Institute for Training on Personality Disorders of the McLean Hospital, affiliated with Harvard University, stressed that these persons create a dependency towards their friends, relatives or partners, and experience a crisis, if they think that these do not love them.
The patients with this condition suffer and make those surrounding them suffer, especially their relatives and their partners, due to the great emotional demands that they place upon their significant others.
Although this affliction affects men and women equally, men can be more dangerous, because they become aggressive.
"It presents in 75% of the women and is most common in men who use drugs," stresses a report supplied by the Dominican psychiatrist Rafael Garcia Alvarez, who together with Doctor Choi is trying to raise awareness of the ailment and the manners of treating and preventing it in the country.
The idea is that the ailment be identified earlier, in order that treatment which generally makes use of cognitive and behavioral or therapies is easier.
Both methods are effective but they require a lot of resources by the clinic in order to treat it.
"It implies hours of training, supplies, a therapist that can speak with the patient 24/7," Choi noted.
Few specialists
Both in the United States as well as in the country there are not many specialists who work with this ailment, so that they are trying to integrate them to this work.
According to medical experts, in the country there are persons with this ailment, but they have not been receiving treatment focused on the condition.
"Supposedly there are many more cases both here as well as in the United States, but they are not identified or diagnosed, perhaps because there are no sufficient resources or the doctors do not have the training to treat them effectively," Choi underlined.
The international expert in the handling of this condition yesterday presented a group of psychiatric and psychology professionals the conference: "Borderline Personality Disorder and Mood, Confusion, Co - morbidity and Controversial Disorders."
History
Starting in 1970, psychiatrists determined that the persons who present extreme, auto destructive emotions and stormy interpersonal relations suffer from an ailment related to their personality.
The term "borderline," came about because it was thought that they were atypical or were at the edge of other ailments.
The person who began to speak of this disorder was Adolph Stern, in 1938. One of the things that was established is that those patients do not respond correctly to treatments that are used for patients with psychotic or neurological disorders.
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