The Is The Right One For Me - 1832 Words

Beating BPD In beginning this project, I struggled with choosing a diagnosis that would be the right one for me to attempt to understand. Mental illness is a topic that has plagued my family for generations. It has been a common theme in every relationship I have ever had. Although initially I assumed this circumstance would make it immensely easy to choose a topic for this paper, as it turned out it was the opposite. I first considered Oppositional Defiant Disorder, as I thought surely this is the right topic so that I may take my findings to the father of my children to show him that he is desperately in need of accepting the help I feel he needs. Then I thought, I will choose Factitious Disorder and focus on Munchausen by Proxy as†¦show more content†¦Beginning with an inability to function, an impairment in personality must be present in either identity or self-direction. A person exhibiting an impairment in identity might criticize himself excessively, have deep an d troubling experiences of emptiness or possibly even experience dissociative states under extreme stress. A person experiencing an impairment with self-direction would exhibit signs of inability to follow through or possibly even set goals, and have no drive in regards to career plans. The Diagnostic criteria for this disorder demand that 5 of 9 criteria are met. Often a person with this disorder will exhibit signs of suicidal tendencies or self-mutilation. Other symptoms may include, but are not limited to reacting in advance to a possibility of abandonment. The mere thought of losing a relationship or a person who is viewed in some way as a caretaker is enough to cause significant changes in their self-image and therefore their behavior. These people are extremely sensitive to changes in their environment, and it does not matter if those changes are announced in advance or sprung by surprise. Extreme irritability and anxiety can cause instability as well. Often issues contr olling anger and temper tantrums become extremely problematic in keeping stability in home and work environments. Most of the time this issue escalates to inappropriate proportions, causing loss of jobs, dissolution of marriages or long term