Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder with the Notebook of Love

A Notebook of Love is more than just a writing debut for Luis Trivino – it’s a final attempt at saving his marriage and giving love another chance. Among the many things he talks about in the book, one of the most clear themes of the book is accepting and handling mental illnesses throughout their life.

At the beginning of the book, Trivino acknowledges that he and his wife both had post-traumatic stress disorder, along with bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder. We understand that everyone might not know what these illnesses entail, and that’s why we’re here!

Let’s take a deeper look into what borderline personality disorder holds for its victims, and how you can treat it over time. Let’s begin!

What is Borderline Personality Disorder?

Borderline personality disorder affects how a person thinks about themselves and others around them. These thinking patterns can cause problems in everyday life, such as having a difficult time managing emotions, thoughts, and other behavior patterns.

Most people who have borderline personality disorder deal with intense feelings of fear of abandonment and instability. Similarly, they may experience a wide range of emotions, have abrupt reactions to simple things, and experience mood swings. All these problems may affect the relationships they have with people around them.

Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder

One of the biggest consequences that come with having borderline personality disorder includes how much your feelings, behavior, and thinking are affected. Here are some of the common symptoms of BPD:

• Experiencing an overpowering sense of abandonment, separation, or rejection.
• Establish patterns of unstable relationships where you depend too much on one person for a while, and then become withdrawn.
• You experience several shifting ideas of self-identity and self-image.
• Prolonged periods of paranoia and losing touch with reality.
• Feeling suicidal, or developing self-harm habits.
• Prolonged feelings of being lonely and empty.
• Experience a range of emotions including anger, sorrow, etc.

How to Treat Borderline Personality Disorder?

When you feel like it’s time to reach out for help, don’t shy away from speaking to a professional or a loved one. Here are some forms of therapy that you can try:

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy
• Schema-focused therapy
• Mentalization-based therapy
• Systems training for emotional predictability and problem solving
• Transference focused psychotherapy
• Medication

If you want to learn more about how a mental health problem or some form of mental trauma can affect your married life, and the people around you, make sure to get your copy of A Notebook of Love.Luis Trivino has poured out his heart into his book about mental illness. Grab your copy, today!