Borderline intellectual functioning

Borderline personality disorder has attracted more attention than any other Personality Disorder (PD). Individuals with BPD have shown to have a history of physical and sexual abuse. Changes in their lives, such as moving from one country to another can also trigger BPD symptoms. According to the DSM-5 “Personality disorder categories may be applied to children or adolescents in those relatively unusual instances in which the individual's particular maladaptive personality traits appear to be…

To begin, many people believe that this disorder is not legitimate compared to say, that of a schizotypal personality disorder. This is because some believe there is not strong enough evidence to support what really qualifies as “borderline”. Drawing from the biopsychosocial model (used in psychology often); there are three main factors that could influence a person to develop or inherit BPD. Two components within the biopsychosocial model are social/environmental and psychological. Starting…

Susanna Kaysen, is a 19-year-old white American female, born and raised in an upper middle class household in Cambridge, Massachusetts. while graduating high school, Susanna was the only graduating student who didn’t have a future plan and no aims of going to university. All she realized was that she wanted to write; however, she had no indications and was forced by her parents and others expectations. Contextual Information Susanna being the only child and who appeared to have a fairly…

People with borderline personality disorder have trouble living a normal life. All of their feeling are over the top. They have trouble getting their emotions under controlled. Many of the people with the disorder go through many emotions and psychotic symptoms that prevents them to think clearly and live a sane life. There are some treatments and medications that can help someone with borderline personality disorder live a normal life and there is many things family and friends can do to help.…

code and all supervisors at the workplace were men. Also, women could only smoke during break in the bathroom while men could smoke anytime and anywhere. Another example from the text that the story contains sexism is that the illness Kaysen has is Borderline Personality Disorder. This is mostly diagnosed in women than in men. In the story it tells the symptoms of BPD and how they are most commonly found in females rather than males. It says, "The illness, she tells us, is most commonly…

Borderline Personality Disorder and Bi-Polar II. I started taking my medication, got clean, and made the goal of working toward my GED. There were obstacles I had to overcome before I was able to obtain it, but I finally did it this year. I wish my mother…

he was the outcast. She would find that he would always accuse her of being disloyal even if there is no evidence or suspicions at all. The woman would have to always provide the attention that she would a child in order to make the man with the borderline personality feel special. She would have to deal with his hostile yet demanding attitude, and always be ready for him to turn on her for the smallest things. He will do things to this woman and place the blame on her. For an example, he will…

As we all know, cell phones were made for talking to one another. With everything being so high-tech now, we are able to do much more than that. Now able to get on the internet at the touch of a button, use a cell phone as a camera, and get the weather all within 2 minutes. Sure, we all love our cell phones, but is it too harsh to say that some people would be absolutely lost without it? Choosing this topic was easy for me. I see first hand in my family, my 12-year-old sister has an iPhone 6,…

Girl, Interrupted is a memoir written by Susanna Kaysen in 1993. In her memoir, Kaysen recalls her time spent at a psychiatric hospital after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Her story is told through a collection of nonlinear vignettes as she chronicles her two years spent at psychiatric hospitall and her life after her time there. Kaysen recalls that in April of 1967, as an eighteen-year-old, she was admitted to McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts after attempting…

stigma attached to mental illness, one that contributes to high suicide rates and refusal to seek treatment. The treatments are sometimes inconsistent, especially when dealing with complex issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and borderline personality…