CBT For Borderline Personality Disorders
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is challenging mental health condition that leads to sufferers having difficulties in perceiving how they feel about themselves and others.
A person may be diagnosed with BPD if they are having significant issues with their self-worth or persistent feelings that other might abandon them, making it hard to enjoy stable relationships.
People with BPD can also have very intense emotions that change quickly, leaving them feeling either incredibly happy, angry, low or anxious. In extreme cases, a person may become impulsive or exhibit risky behaviours that could harm them or others or experience intense paranoia.
How cognitive behavioural therapy can help
It can be very distressing to suffer with BPD, but it is important to seek professional help to overcome the negative, yet persuasive, thinking and behavioural patterns that affect all areas of the person’s life.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based talking therapy that can effectively help BPD sufferers to manage their condition in a healthier and more productive way.
The focus of CBT for borderline personality disorder is to give people the skills to recognise the distorted thoughts and feelings that cause them distress. By identifying these behaviours and understanding the thought process that occurs in certain challenging situations, clients can react more realistically and positively to events and gradually reduce the effect their condition holds over them.
For people with BPD, making these big changes can be intensely difficult. It’s a condition that an experienced CBT therapist understands and will move the therapy at the client’s own pace in a supportive environment. By building on CBT techniques and adapting their thought processes more realistically, BPD sufferers will start to feel more confident, less anxious and begin to focus on productive and positive life goals.
Speak to our experienced therapists
Our professional and accredited CBT therapists have a range of strategies to help clients deal with unhelpful thinking by showing them how to re-evaluate their thoughts with realism.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Interventions have successfully helped hundreds of clients understand the intricacies of their borderline personality disorder. The cognitive approach is highly effective in improving a person’s outlook on life allowing them to open the door to a brighter future.
