Borderline Personality Disorder – Care Providers

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Well, borderline personality disorder is, especially in the acute phase, and if you’re looking for treatment, there’s a team. And a team can include the therapist, and the therapist can either be a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, a licensed mental health counselor. So there’s basically a team. The psychiatrist can provide medication management as well as therapy. And again, the treatment of choice for the borderline personality disorder is the dialectical behavioral therapy. And part of the dialectical behavioral therapy is working with the mindfulness, being in the moment, being able to meditate, being able to handle your stress, your anxiety, your fears, in a much more constructive manner.