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Dr. Fox offers consultation sessions to help you learn more about your BPD:
https://www.drdfox.com/consultation

This video is going to address issues that often arise when someone you love has BPD. There are things you can do to make their life, and yours easier. Are these magical tricks and tips, no. Are these things that will require you to do and think things differently about the person you love? YES.

One of the greatest challenges for those with BPD is managing the disorder within an environment of stigma. You may know exactly what I’m saying, like trying to find a therapist or a professional to help when that person finds out about the Dx of BPD. BPD is the most successfully treated PD, individuals with BPD can learn how to manage symptom distress and improve interpersonal functioning, and that remission of symptoms is highly likely – in 7899% of individuals with BPD (research articles are at the end of the comments section).

A personality disorder is just that a disorder, and the personality side of it means that they have developed, over decades in many cases, maladaptive patterns that are destructive to themselves, you, and their life and yours.
Let me tell you the 4 things you can do to help your loved one get to achieve symptom remission?

1. Don’t blame it all on BPD – when your loved one has an emotional instance or reaction, don’t blame it all on BPD.

2. Transparency – Because BPD is based on fear of abandonment, loss, and poor ability to assess situations accurately the loved one needs to be fully transparent.

3. Boundaries, boundaries, boundaries – You should not be the receptacle of abuse, but don’t encourage it either.

4. Take care of yourself.

Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in Texas, international speaker, and a multiaward winning author. He has been specializing in the treatment and assessment of individuals with personality disorders for over 15 years in the state and federal prison system, universities, and in private practice. His specialty areas include personality disorders, ethics, burnout prevention, and emotional intelligence.

He has published several articles in these areas and is the author of:

The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook: An Integrative Program to Understand and Manage Your BPD. Available at: https://goo.gl/LQEgy1'>https://goo.gl/LQEgy1

Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook: Treatment Strategies for Cluster B Personality Disorders (IPBA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award Winner): https://goo.gl/BLRkFy

Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox: 55 Practical Treatment Techniques for Clients, Their Parents & Their Children (IPBA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award Winner):: https://goo.gl/sZYhym

The Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders: https://goo.gl/ZAVe9v

Dr. Fox maintains a website of various treatment interventions focused on working with and attenuating the symptomatology related to individuals along the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum (www.drdfox.com).

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Citations:
Zanarini, M. C., Frankenburg, F. R., Reich, D. B., & Fitzmaurice, G. (2012). Attainment and stability of sustained symptomatic remission and recovery among patients with borderline personality disorder and axis II comparison subjects: a 16year prospective followup study. American Journal of Psychiatry, 169(5), 476483.
McMain, S., Links, P. S., Guimond, T., Wnuk, S., Eynan, R., Bergmans, Y., & Warwar, S. (2013). An exploratory study of the relationship between changes in emotion and cognitive processes and treatment outcome in borderline personality disorder. Psychotherapy Research, 23(6), 658673.