Diagnosing and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
patient to stabilize and resist wild swings in his or her emotional state. However, another possible therapeutic approach could be the use of cognitive behavioral therapy, which can help the patient to learn to process emotions, identify triggers or potential stressors and avoid them, and develop a plan for regulation of the emotions by identifying behavioral goals that have positive ramifications and working towards ways to achieve those goals routinely and on a daily basis so that they become normative (Eiraldi et al., 2016). For some patients, learning that they have a mental or emotional disorder can be challenging for them and even traumatic. They may… Continue Reading...