Counseling for Borderline Personality Disorder in Rockville Centre

If your emotions feel like they’re constantly on fire, if your relationships swing between “I need you” and “I hate you,” and if you feel like you’re different people depending on who you’re with, you might be dealing with BPD. It’s exhausting to live this way, but it’s also treatable.

What is BPD?

Borderline Personality Disorder involves intense, rapidly changing emotions, unstable relationships, and an unclear sense of who you really are. People with BPD often struggle with fear of abandonment, impulsive behaviors, self-harming behaviors, and feeling empty or disconnected from themselves. But behind all of that is a nervous system on high alert and a heart that’s been hurt too many times.

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Causes and Triggers

There’s no single cause of BPD. It often develops from a mix of early trauma, invalidating or chaotic environments, genetic sensitivity and emotional dysregulation from a young age.

Triggers tend to center around relationships and can include real or perceived rejection, abandonment or changes in closeness that feel threatening. Even something small can feel like a threat to your safety, setting off a wave of emotion that’s hard to contain.

Person overwhelmed by emotions living with BPD

How Therapy Can Help

Man doing meditation as part of DBT therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder

Dialectical Behavior Therapy is the typical approach for BPD because it teaches you how to regulate intense emotions, tolerate distress, build a stronger, more stable sense of self and have healthier relationships. You can learn to surf the emotional waves instead of being wiped out by them.

It’s not always easy work, but with the right therapist and consistent support, BPD is treatable. People recover. People heal. People go on to have relationships that are deep, healthy, and lasting. And that includes you.