PSYC 371 Lecture 6: 371_lec6_170530－BPD
12 Oct 2018
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Beginning of next class will provide more info regarding assign. Hard to treat as psychotherapy emphasize importance of significant relationships. A disorder of pervasive emotion dysregulation (linehan, 1993) Lots of other disorder is about emotion dysregulation (anxiety, depression) Recognizing own emotion, labelling emotions, control emotion. Wild mood swing, extreme emotions (very happy, very depressed) A disorder of instability and problems with emotions. Emotions (up and down; hard to control; easily upset; react quickly; lasts longer) To deal with that, they try to distance and detached from their emotion, lead to numb emotion and act dangerously (self-harm) Just want to feel something, feel the pain and know they are alive. Thinking (biased thinking under stress; suspiciousness or paranoia, spaced out when stressed; identity changing, no idea who i am ) Lots of people feel like that it is part of normal life; but bpd individual experience that in extreme dysfunctional ways.
