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This mental affliction can be indeed definitely distressing to the sufferer and the dear ones as well.
Therefore what can you do to keep it under control and initiate your recovery process from BPD?
The first step is to actually accept that you are suffering from this mental affliction, if you haven't done this yet,even if this is tough for you right now. By and large people incline to overrule the idea that there is an issue with us even when this is obvious to others.
As counterintuitive as this may appear, acknowledging the idea of facing hardships in reality is having a relaxing consequence on the mind.
How can this be possible?
Because rather than concentrating on demeanours and strategies to disguise the indicators, you can canalize your attention and energy on actually getting better. Not to mention the worry to be always on alert to mask the appearance.
The 2nd phase to managing borderline personality disorder and your recovery is to understand that BPD is a mental disorder, not a mental illness.
What's the difference among the two?
A mental disorder is in fact embodied by bearings, thoughts, and convictions which we have learned in our past, and which are unhealthy and disadaptive to us.
A mental illness by contrast refers to physical and/or physiological derangements inside the brain.
So the good side in all of this is that BPD being a mental disorder means that you can actually do something for your recovery. In fact you can have total control over your mind and you just need to figure out how to do that.
The 3rd step towards managing borderline personality disorder is to modify the unhealthy and disadaptive thoughts with new adaptive ones.
This step can be performed through the exact same principle through which you did acquire the unhealthy and disadaptive ways to think you have today. And that mechanism is called learning.
As a matter of fact anyone with unimpaired learning and habit creation abilities can accomplish the mission of overcomming borderline personality disorder and having a happy and fulfilling life once again.
