Borderline Personality Disorder

.Borderline Personality Disorder
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1.History
2.How many people have borderline personality disorder?
3.What is borderline personality disorder?
4.Understanding borderline personality disorder
5.Other problems or diagnoses found in association with borderline personality disorder
6.What causes borderline personality disorder?
7.Understanding self-harm
8.Prognosis: do people with borderline personality disorder get better?
9.Is treatment effective?
.Recovery frameworks
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10.Change
11.Psychological treatments
12.What to expect from the treatment
13.First contact with health professionals
14.Choosing a therapist
15.Developing a therapy agreement
16.Support network
17.Assessment
18.Treatment goals and treatment plan
19.Therapy relationship
20.Taking charge of your recovery
21.Power struggles and beyond
22.Prioritising your therapy focus
23.Preparation for crises
24.Medication
25.Hospitalisation
.Recovery specifics
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26.Is it our awareness that makes a difference?
27.Is it what we do that makes a difference?
28.Is it what we think that makes a difference?
29.Is it what we feel that makes a difference?
30.Is it what we do with emotions of anger, guilt and regret that makes a difference?
31.Is it what we do with impulsive urges that makes a difference?
32.Is it taking charge of our personal boundaries that makes a difference?
33.Is it how we clarify our values and identity that makes a difference?
34.Is it how we relate to ourselves that makes a difference?
35.Is it how we relate to others that makes a difference?
36.Is it how we create pleasure that makes a difference?
37.Is it how we deal with 'flashbacks' that makes a difference?
38.Is it how we deal with crises that makes a difference?
39.Is it how we deal with our physical health that makes a difference?
40.Is it how we deal with something 'larger than ourselves' that makes a difference?
41.Notes to family and friends
42.Concluding comments