Borderline Personality Disorder
TFP is a treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD). Patients with BPD are often characterized by intense affects, stormy relationships, and impulsive behaviors. Due to their high reactivity to environmental stimuli, patients with BPD often experience dramatic and short-lived shifts in their mood, alternating between experiences of euphoria, depression, anxiety, and nervousness. Patients with BPD often experience intolerable feelings of emptiness that they attempt to fill with impulsive and self-damaging behaviors, such as substance use, risky sexual behavior, uncontrolled spending, or binge eating. Further, patients with BPD often exhibit recurrent suicidal behaviors, gestures, or threats. Under intense stress patients with BPD may exhibit transient dissociative or paranoid symptoms.
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