How do you calm down a borderline personality disorder?
To help someone with BPD, first take care of yourself
- Avoid the temptation to isolate.
- You’re allowed (and encouraged) to have a life!
- Join a support group for BPD family members.
- Don’t neglect your physical health.
- Learn to manage stress.
- Listen actively and be sympathetic.
- Focus on the emotions, not the words.
Can BPD be caused by trauma?
Most people who suffer from BPD have a history of major trauma, often sustained in childhood. This includes sexual and physical abuse, extreme neglect, and separation from parents and loved ones.
What is EUPD (emotionally unstable personality disorder)?
Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD) is also referred to as Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). It is a diagnosis that describes a range of destructive impulsive emotional reactions. The disorder will be different for all sufferers.
Can people with BPD have more than one personality?
Due to it being a personality disorder, BPD is often confused with someone having dissociative identity disorder, where people develop multiple personalities. But this isn’t the case at all. People with BPD don’t have more than one personality.
What is EUPD and how does it affect people?
People with EUPD can also show traits of Borderline Personality Disorder or BPD, in which the patients become doubtful of everyone around them, even of themselves. They may also have problems with instability of mood; as they can feel excited one moment and sad in the other.
Can You Learn to live with your EUPD?
It is possible to develop insights into how your EUPD works and with that knowledge to learn to live with it more constructively. You are still likely to have the same impulsive and reactive response to emotional situations. But you may come to be able to recognise them and adapt and adjust more appropriately.