Borderline Personality Disorder
LeeAnn Larsen
Community College of Aurora
Psychology 102
Introduction
Definition of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a specific pattern of impairments and traits (dsm-5, 2015). In this paper, I provide background information about Bryce Larsen, my person of interest, I discuss the history, diagnostic criteria, and effects of BPD, and I apply this information to Bryce’s lived experiences. This paper is purely for educational purposes and not a true diagnosis of the individual represented.
Background Information
At thirty-one years old, Bryce, is an average, athletic built, white male who currently resides in Utah with his wife and her three boys; whereas, his biologically three young children live …show more content…
Hughes (Crump, D. & Anderson, J.S., 2009). Originally named, “excitable personality”, by E. Kraepelin, the term, “borderline” wasn’t used until after World War II. “Core” behaviors and characteristics of BPD weren’t isolated until the 1960s; however, it wasn’t until the 1970s and ‘80s that BPD became solidified. A publication of the American Psychiatric Association called The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is used as a concrete source for diagnosis in 2000. Precisely, DSM-IV-TR, describes benchmark standards for diagnosis of BPD. “A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image and affects, as well as marked impulsivity, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts…” describes BPD. Symptoms include, “Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment, a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships, identity disturbance, impulsivity, recurrent suicidal behavior, emotional instability, chronic feelings of emptiness, inappropriate, intense anger, and transient, stress-related paranoid thoughts or dissociative symptoms;” although, only five are needed for …show more content…
Otto Kremburg wrote, “Clinically…we refer to patients who present serious difficulties in their interpersonal relationships and some alteration in their experience of reality…” Bryce met and married his first wife after only knowing each other for only two months. Suffers’ of BPD can, “idealize potential caregivers or lovers at the first or second meeting.”(dsm,) With the arrival of children, Bryce lost some attention from his wife. “… [I]ndividuals can empathize with and nurture other people, but only with the expectation that the other person will “be there” in return to meet their own needs on demand.” Unfortunately, for Bryce his children had the demand of his wife instead of
LeeAnn Larsen
Community College of Aurora
Psychology 102
Introduction
Definition of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a specific pattern of impairments and traits (dsm-5, 2015). In this paper, I provide background information about Bryce Larsen, my person of interest, I discuss the history, diagnostic criteria, and effects of BPD, and I apply this information to Bryce’s lived experiences. This paper is purely for educational purposes and not a true diagnosis of the individual represented.
Background Information
At thirty-one years old, Bryce, is an average, athletic built, white male who currently resides in Utah with his wife and her three boys; whereas, his biologically three young children live …show more content…
Hughes (Crump, D. & Anderson, J.S., 2009). Originally named, “excitable personality”, by E. Kraepelin, the term, “borderline” wasn’t used until after World War II. “Core” behaviors and characteristics of BPD weren’t isolated until the 1960s; however, it wasn’t until the 1970s and ‘80s that BPD became solidified. A publication of the American Psychiatric Association called The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is used as a concrete source for diagnosis in 2000. Precisely, DSM-IV-TR, describes benchmark standards for diagnosis of BPD. “A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image and affects, as well as marked impulsivity, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts…” describes BPD. Symptoms include, “Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment, a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships, identity disturbance, impulsivity, recurrent suicidal behavior, emotional instability, chronic feelings of emptiness, inappropriate, intense anger, and transient, stress-related paranoid thoughts or dissociative symptoms;” although, only five are needed for …show more content…
Otto Kremburg wrote, “Clinically…we refer to patients who present serious difficulties in their interpersonal relationships and some alteration in their experience of reality…” Bryce met and married his first wife after only knowing each other for only two months. Suffers’ of BPD can, “idealize potential caregivers or lovers at the first or second meeting.”(dsm,) With the arrival of children, Bryce lost some attention from his wife. “… [I]ndividuals can empathize with and nurture other people, but only with the expectation that the other person will “be there” in return to meet their own needs on demand.” Unfortunately, for Bryce his children had the demand of his wife instead of