Case Study Robin Henderson

Robin Henderson displace symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). BPD is the most well-known and dramatic of the personality disorders which is characterize by severe impairment in functioning and has a high mortality rate. And has an extensive utilization of health care services. The major features of this disorder are patterns of marked instability in emotion regulation, self-image distortion, unstable interpersonal relationship and unstable mood. Likewise I believe has BPD as she has been having interpersonal encounter usually with her husband where she feel threatened, criticized and unloved with no obvious perception which lead her to attempt to commit suicide. Which is follow by seeking attention by inflicting injuries to herself. One of the pathological personality trait seen in individuals with BPD is negative affect which is portray by emotional lability which is mood that alternate rapidly from one emotional extreme to another. Robin has been displaying these traits where her interpersonal behavior has been erratic in nature and how unstable, also with no apparently reason …show more content…
At the age of 14 Robin began abusing alcohol which continue to her first year of high school. Robin engage in binge-drinking behavior to deal with the lack of love from her parents and the physical and sexual abused from her parents. Abuse of a substance is possible once the problems resulting from misuse become more regular, in which Robin was engaging in consuming alcohol as early as age 14. Although she was attending Alcoholic Anonymous meeting she still continue to engage in binge-drinking. Despite her abusing alcohol, she was able to function well in school and work. This is as a result that Robin has develop tolerance due to regular use of alcohol. Tolerance is a physiological experience that occur when a person’s reaction to a substance decreases when repeated administration of the same