Your emotions may feel out of control and impact the way you think and feel about yourself and others, causing problems in everyday functioning and patterns of unstable relationships. You might feel sad, irritable, worthless, misunderstood, compulsive, self-destructive, sensitive, guilty and experience poor performance and mood swings. You may have tried recreational drugs, alcohol, eating and sleeping too much or self-harm to relieve the emotional pain.
“You can’t think yourself into new ways of acting: You can only act yourself into new ways of thinking.”
Psychotherapy can alleviate symptoms of personality disorders and explore the underlying cause of your condition, validating what has happened in your attachment, processing fears of abandonment, gaining skills to regulate emotions, building distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness and a life worth living. Dialectical behaviour therapy plays a large role in managing personality disorders.