Is it a chemical imbalance? A neurological thing? All I know is they’re not like other mental disorders and they’re difficult to treat.
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Certain personality disorders are the result of trauma, usually experienced at a young age. When we’re young our brains are still developing. Childhood and younger are the most crucial when it comes to our personality, why we do the things we do and have the thoughts that we have.
Borderline Personality Disorder is classified as a disregulation of your emotions, meaning you don’t know how to properly process them and therefore experience them in their extremes. Happiness feels like euphoria, sadness feels like hopelessness and anger feels like rage.
Through different types of childhood trauma, you never learn how to properly process your emotions. Neglect leads to a fear of abandonment. A fear of abandonment leads to pushing people away before they get too close to hurt you. This leads to self sabotage and suddenly you find yourself tumbling down a rabbit hole where one problem causes another and before long, every aspect of your life is affected.
It’s very complicated and complex and that’s what makes it so difficult to treat. Personality disorders cannot be treated with meds because it’s not caused by chemical imbalances that can be fixed with medicine. Meds are only used to treat symptoms caused by the disorder, such as mood disregulation, impulsivity etc. The standard treatment for personality disorders is therapy, sometimes more intensive forms of therapy than traditional. Treatment lies in changing thought patterns, which happens through dealing with and healing from the trauma. Nothing about it is clear cut or easy.
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