Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder and the Difficulties of Explaining Psychosocial Adjustment In recent years, Personality Disorders (PDs) have been the theme of a significant quantity of research literature. As opposed to some other disorders, PDs are not considered an irregular condition in a functional person. Instead, a PD is identified as a dysfunction that began at an earlier stage of an individual’s development and was not overcome (Paris, 2013). The earliest descriptions of a dysfunction resembling a PD came from the work on pathological personalities by Reich (1933). Reich (1933) suggested that this disorder of personality was not necessarily a mental dysfunction but more of a signal indicating a maladaptive character trait. Personality …show more content…
In this paper, the intent is to focus specifically on the category of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and the psychosocial issues of concern related to this disorder. First, I intend to provide a description and prevalence of this BPD. This will be followed by an explanation of the medical and psychological effects of BPD. Then, the main area of focus on psychosocial issues of concern will be explored. This will be followed by brief sections on the barriers and challenges associated with BPD and possible intervention strategies. This information will then be discussed and presented in a concluding summary of the …show more content…
Further, issues of misdiagnosis and co-occurring disorders make the assumed medical and psychological effects of BPD lack specificity. As suggested by Durvasula (2017), the medical and psychological effects are most likely mediated and moderated by a variety of factors. Moreover, the extraneous factors inherent in patterns of personality (e.g. family dynamics, negative relationships) often have more of a weighted impact on a persons medical and psychological well-being than a simple identification and diagnosis based on the DSM-5 criteria. Consequently, it is difficult to ascertain medical and psychological effects specific to BPD. Nevertheless, a focus on the symptoms, behaviors, and traits associated with BPD, may have relevance in explaining general patterns of medical and psychological

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