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Is Borderline Personality disorder making your daily life unbearable and looking after medication?
Medication is vastly used not just for medical conditions but as well in mental illnesses and disorders.
Yes, you read that right. There is a essential difference amongst a mental illness and a mental disease which is sometimes misunderstood even by professionals.
The term "mental illness" depicts a mental condition caused by a constitutional and/or physiological failure of the brain. Instances of mental illnesses are schizophrenia, epilepsy, retardation, or learning and language problems.
However a mental disease is also a mental condition but caused by cognitive and emotional factors. Instances of mental disorders are anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and personality disorders.
Although manifestations can be very similar in both mental conditions, their backgrounds are totally differing and they need to be approached accordingly in order to actually produce a difference.
Moreover you require to comprehend how drugs work and how personality is described in the brain to discover if medication is going to really help with borderline personality.
No matter the personality, good or less good, is basically a group of information processing patterns, phylosophy, and general beliefs in relation to the self, others, and the world around us.
All these are information we use automatically and unconscious and are accumulated by the brain in the form of synapses, physical connections amongst extensions of neural bodies.
So synapses are produced as new experiences and info we face are stored in the brain.
Further on, let's have a look at how medication works and whether it can really make a difference in your borderline personality.
It is well known that basically medical drugs are chemical substances.
When a pill enters our body, the chemical substances it incorporates are diffused evenly to all cells by the blood flow. Within the brain these substances will create the effects we are looking after (e.g. calmness, less anxiety, less depression etc) by altering the natural bio-chemical balance and not by "rewiring" the synapses.
The brain requires new information and experiences to remodel its synapses, therefore modeling a new personality.
Additionally medication will be eliminated after a while so in order to preserve the effects a regular intake of the drugs is required, which can nearly surely lead to dependence.
So medical drugs is not dealing with the actual causes of borderline personality disorder, but merely "masking the manifestations by adding more issues on the long run.
You ought to take psychotropic drugs only prescribed and supervised by your medical doctor or psychiatrist. It is commendable to utilize medication only if your mental affliction is hinder severely your everyday responsibilities or the psychological intervention.
The usually ordered drugs are anxiolytics and antidepressants, but please bear in mind, don't take them without visiting your physician.
Cognitive restructuring is the one that functions the best in mental afflictions because they act right on the very causes of borderline personality, the detrimental thinking patterns which are made up by neural synapses.
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Searching After Medication for Borderline Personality?
