Cycle 20 - Smarter Than BPD - Main Text Quiz

Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder and Managing Emotions

• The slide set aims to bring together the learning from previous steps and show a real Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) struggle in action.
• The bubbles in the slide correspond to the teachings from Step 3 (slide set 4) and show the order of events, interpretations, emotions, self-talk, and new events.
• The process helps understand how these parts of a BPD experience connect and make for a messy situation.
• The slide portrays the raw emotions and thoughts that can happen during a BPD struggle, those not well-managed before a person has developed sufficient self-awareness and skill to self-adjust.
• The slide identifies the common types of unhealthy thoughts (cognitive distortions) that can be part of these moments, as indicated by "CD" in the flowchart.
• The slide shows how not mindfully observing thoughts and feelings can make things increasingly ineffective, resulting in unhealthy thoughts and intense emotions co-occurring.
• When two or more people follow this pattern of not noticing or managing “their stuff” internally, interactions could become toxic, resulting in rejection, isolation, and self-destructive behaviour.
• Those who suffer from BPD tend to have more intense emotional challenges and must become proficient at managing them.
• Attending to feelings mindfully becomes easier to settle feelings, enjoy constructive conversations with others, and recall essential information while conversing.
• Learning to love your raw emotional experience and practicing empathy for the emotional experience of yourself and others will empower you to adjust unhealthy thoughts, emotions, and behaviours.
• The way things get worded in the new self-talk and interpretation, it becomes possible to let go of unnecessary and toxic emotions such as guilt, shame, worthlessness, and fear.
• When a person has untreated Borderline Personality Disorder, life tends to be much more challenging because of the additional “heavy” emotions that aren’t dealt with effectively.

Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder and Managing Emotions

• The slide set aims to bring together the learning from previous steps and show a real Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) struggle in action.
• The bubbles in the slide correspond to the teachings from Step 3 (slide set 4) and show the order of events, interpretations, emotions, self-talk, and new events.
• The process helps understand how these parts of a BPD experience connect and make for a messy situation.
• The slide portrays the raw emotions and thoughts that can happen during a BPD struggle, those not well-managed before a person has developed sufficient self-awareness and skill to self-adjust.
• The slide identifies the common types of unhealthy thoughts (cognitive distortions) that can be part of these moments, as indicated by "CD" in the flowchart.
• The slide shows how not mindfully observing thoughts and feelings can make things increasingly ineffective, resulting in unhealthy thoughts and intense emotions co-occurring.
• When two or more people follow this pattern of not noticing or managing “their stuff” internally, interactions could become toxic, resulting in rejection, isolation, and self-destructive behaviour.
• Those who suffer from BPD tend to have more intense emotional challenges and must become proficient at managing them.
• Attending to feelings mindfully becomes easier to settle feelings, enjoy constructive conversations with others, and recall essential information while conversing.
• Learning to love your raw emotional experience and practicing empathy for the emotional experience of yourself and others will empower you to adjust unhealthy thoughts, emotions, and behaviours.
• The way things get worded in the new self-talk and interpretation, it becomes possible to let go of unnecessary and toxic emotions such as guilt, shame, worthlessness, and fear.
• When a person has untreated Borderline Personality Disorder, life tends to be much more challenging because of the additional “heavy” emotions that aren’t dealt with effectively.

Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder and Managing Emotions

• The slide set aims to bring together the learning from previous steps and show a real Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) struggle in action.
• The bubbles in the slide correspond to the teachings from Step 3 (slide set 4) and show the order of events, interpretations, emotions, self-talk, and new events.
• The process helps understand how these parts of a BPD experience connect and make for a messy situation.
• The slide portrays the raw emotions and thoughts that can happen during a BPD struggle, those not well-managed before a person has developed sufficient self-awareness and skill to self-adjust.
• The slide identifies the common types of unhealthy thoughts (cognitive distortions) that can be part of these moments, as indicated by "CD" in the flowchart.
• The slide shows how not mindfully observing thoughts and feelings can make things increasingly ineffective, resulting in unhealthy thoughts and intense emotions co-occurring.
• When two or more people follow this pattern of not noticing or managing “their stuff” internally, interactions could become toxic, resulting in rejection, isolation, and self-destructive behaviour.
• Those who suffer from BPD tend to have more intense emotional challenges and must become proficient at managing them.
• Attending to feelings mindfully becomes easier to settle feelings, enjoy constructive conversations with others, and recall essential information while conversing.
• Learning to love your raw emotional experience and practicing empathy for the emotional experience of yourself and others will empower you to adjust unhealthy thoughts, emotions, and behaviours.
• The way things get worded in the new self-talk and interpretation, it becomes possible to let go of unnecessary and toxic emotions such as guilt, shame, worthlessness, and fear.
• When a person has untreated Borderline Personality Disorder, life tends to be much more challenging because of the additional “heavy” emotions that aren’t dealt with effectively.