Understanding Borderline Personality: Trauma, Brain Science, And A Path Forward
About this episode
The episode explores borderline personality disorder through the lens of trauma and brain science, emphasizing the emotional struggles faced by individuals with the condition.
Send us Fan Mail What if that sudden emotional storm isn’t manipulation but a nervous system crying out for safety? We dive into borderline personality disorder with open eyes and open hands, mapping the path from trauma to dysregulation and from stigma to skills. Drawing on clinical experience and brain science, we explain why BPD often feels like living with emotional third-degree burns: an amygdala that fires at shadows, a prefrontal cortex that goes offline when stress peaks, and an insul...
People in this episode
Host: Amy Watson
Topics covered
- borderline personality disorder
- trauma
- emotional dysregulation
- mental health
- brain science
- stigma
- skills
Keywords
- borderline personality disorder
- trauma
- emotional dysregulation
- mental health
- brain science
- amygdala
- prefrontal cortex
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Organizations: clinical experience, brain science
Books & works: borderline personality disorder
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