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| from Kristalyn Salters-Pedneault, PhD People with BPD and their family members are often desperate to find help. Unfortunately, this leaves the door open for opportunists who pedal phony treatments or therapies with no research support. This week, learn about some therapies for BPD that you can trust– all of these treatments have solid research backing. |
| Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder An overview of empirically supported psychosocial treatments for BPD – all of these treatments have been shown to be effective in reducing BPD symptoms. |
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| Dialectical Behavior Therapy Of all the psychosocial treatments for BPD, Dialectical Behavior Therapy or DBT has the largest body of research support. DBT is also now offered all over the world. |
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| How to Get the Most Out of Treatment Now that you’ve found the right therapy, how do you make sure that you get the most out of it? These tips will help you on the road to recovery. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |
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Stop the Storm 
Do you have BPD?
No, most fortunately, I do not. I believe my mother did, among other things. I believe there is a genetic component for it that has to be triggered by early childhood stress and trauma — which my mother had, I certainly had — but I did not have the genes for BPD.
I believe my mother would have had multiple diagnosis.
I share with her what I believe is the fundamental underlying structure of a disorganized-disoriented insecure attachment disorder from which all the other ‘disorders’ originated. This disorder ALWAYS results from developmental brain changes a very young infant-child’s body had to make in order to adapt to the stressors within a malevolent early environment.
Mine manifested as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), reoccurring unipolar major depression and Dissociative Identity Disorder.