Boundaries
An imaginary line that separates me from you. It separates your physical space, your feelings, needs, and responsibilities from others.
What is a boundary?
Severely impacts a person's ability to manage their emotions?
What is borderline personality disorder?
Dialectical behavior therapy
What does DBT stand for?
Ordinary worries quickly escalate.
What is catastrophizing?
An infection of the nose, throat, and lungs.
What is the flu?
Avoids intimacy and close relationships.
Unlikely to ask for help.
Has few close relationships.
What are rigid boundaries?
Pattern of intense and unstable relationships
Distorted and unstable self-image
Self-harming behavior
Impulsive behaviors
What are symptoms of BPD?
Mindfulness, distress tolerance interpersonal effectiveness, and emotion regulation
What are the 4 foundations to DBT?
People assume they know what others are thinking.
What is mind reading?
Shock/Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance
What are the 5 stages of grief?
Overshares personal information
Difficulty saying no
Fears rejection
What are porous boundaries?
Family history, brain structure, and environmental factors
What are risk factors for BPD?
Things you are proud of.
What is the billboard?
Occurs when people habitually think in extremes
What is polarized thinking?
Somatic experience and ACT
What are the two Thursday afternoon groups?
Values own opinions
Doesn't compromise own values
Accepting when others say no
What are healthy boundaries?
DBT, CBT, psychotherapy, medication
What are ways to treat BPD?
Things you keep hidden from others.
What is the door?
False belief that emotions are the truth.
What is emotional reasoning?
Grief that does not go away and can last for years.
What is complicated grief?
A way in which we try to control other people.
PTSD, depression, anxiety, bipolar, substance use, and eating disorders.
What are co-occurring disorders with BPD?
STOP
What is a distress tolerance skill?
Tendency to ignore positives and focus exclusively on negatives.
What is mental filtering?
Personal motivation, personal ability, social motivation, social ability, structural motivation, and structural ability.
What are the 6 sources of influence?