Download PDF Understanding Your Borderline Personality Disorder A Workbook by Chris Healy

Sinopsis

Sufferers approach mental health workers for information regarding their diagnosis and psychiatrists ask mental health workers to educate clients about their diagnosis. But how does a busy mental health worker achieve this?

There is much information on the Internet, in books and leaflets, but it takes time to bring together and organise this information. Most mental health workers will admit to struggling with collating up-to-date information and structuring sessions for their clients.

They may have printed off some information from the Internet, educated clients from their experience of nursing those with mental illness or read academic literature on the subject and summarised their findings. As a result, most clients receive different levels of education regarding the understanding of their illness.

This was the problem that I encountered during my nursing career, whereby I was in need of a format regarding basic information for my clients, and also a framework to provide structured sessions which would aid me in educating sufferers regarding their illness. So a few years ago I put together Understanding Your Schizophrenia Illness: A Workbook and this was published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2007. I have found that information in a workbook format allows sufferers to be more involved in learning about their illness and by writing down their thoughts and feelings their understanding is enhanced. After I completed this first workbook I felt that there was a real need for sufferers of Borderline Personality tounderstandmore about their illness as this isamuchmisunderstoodcondition. Sufferers of Borderline Personality Disorder have difficulties in managing their emotions and behaviour which causes devastating results for those who have to try and live this condition and also those who care about them.

Over the past few years there has been increased awareness and research regarding this disorder which is helping to improve the treatment and understanding of Borderline Personality Disorder but at the same time it remains a controversial condition. Regrettably, some health professionals have a negative concept regarding this diagnosis due to the difficulties of managing the care of sufferers with this disorder; also many health professionals would admit to having limited knowledge regarding this disorder due to it being a complex condition; but if sufferers of Borderline Personality Disorder can be motivated to change life long behaviours and learn how to tolerate uncomfortable feelings during treatment there is hope for a better quality of life for them and their loved ones. Sufferers of Borderline Personality Disorder, their loved ones and health professionals need to believe that sufferers can make progress over time and lead happy peaceful lives; this workbook hopes to help towards achieving this.

Content

1. What does personality mean?
2. What is a personality disorder?
3. What have people said about Borderline Personality Disorder?
4. What is it like to suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder?
5. Can you inherit Borderline Personality Disorder?
6. Is it something to do with the brain?
7. Does the environment in which you grew up cause you to develop Borderline Personality Disorder?
8. What famous people suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder?
9. What are the symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder?
10. What famous people have self harmed?
11. What are talking therapies?
12. What are creative arts therapies?
13. What are the roles of professionals who treat me?
14. What difficulties might I anticipate regarding a working relationship with my therapist?
15. How can medication help with the symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder?
16. How can you work with your GP regarding your prescribed medication?
17. What is the most commonly prescribed medication?
18. Wheel of mood swings
19. Wheel of psychosis
20. Wheel of impulsive behaviours
21. Wheel of emptiness and boredom
22. Wheel of suicidal ideas
23. Wheel of abandonment
24. Wheel of relationships
25. Wheel of self harming
26. Wheel of anger
27. Wheel of self identity

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