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What is the difference between Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar Disorder? Which is worse? |
What is the difference between Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar Disorder? Which is worse? Bipolar Disorder Extreme mood swings punctuated by periods of generally even-keeled behavior characterize this disorder. Bipolar disorder tends to run in families. This disorder typically begins in the mid-twenties and continues throughout life. Without treatment, people who have bipolar disorder often go through devastating life events such as marital breakups, job loss, substance abuse, and suicide. Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms of borderline personality disorder, a serious mental illness, include pervasive instability in moods, interpersonal relationships, self-image, and behavior. The instability can affect family and work life, long-term planning, and the individual's sense of self-identity. Source(s): http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/resou... Borderline Personality Disorder is a personality problem. Bi-polar Disorder is a mental illness. Both disorders can be equally bad. It all depends on the severity of the disorder. BPD often time requires talk therapy and medication(s) may not help. Bi-Polars usually need medication as well as therapy to cope with the distructive nature of the illness. My brother has Bipolar 1, so I'm familiar with the symptoms. To me it seems like there are some similarities, but with Bipolar 1 there is more mania, extreme highs and lows and the behavior is more extravagant. I'm not too familiar with BPD but this link below should be helpful. http://www.mental-health-matters.com/art... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/borderline_... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bipolar_dis... borderline personality disorder is a personality disorder. Personality disorders can be identified as really deep and consistent patterns of persona (inner)l experiences and behaviors that lead to distress, unhappiness, and really interfere with the person's everyday life in the sense that impair functioning (in family life, work, school and the such). There is no brain chemical imbalance associated with personality disorders. Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder. As the classification states, for these conditions a disturbance in mood is the identifying symptom. Bipolar disorder is also associated with the chemical called serotonin. It is called bipolar, because the person experiencing it, swings between two extremes (sadness and a sort of "top of the world" kind of feeling). I don't think anybody can say which one is the worse, as they can both impair the individual gravely. They both respond to therapy, however. hope this helps. |
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