What is Borderline personality disorder?

It is a mental condition that significantly influences your thoughts and feelings about yourself and others, which causes socialization and behavior problems that affect your life.

This disorder causes erratic behavior and an emotionally and rationally negative self-perception, in addition to hindering the establishment and maintenance of healthy and stable relationships.

This condition’s effects include an excessive fear of loneliness, rupture, abandonment, and loss of emotional control, so there are constant mood swings that go from euphoria to anger or sadness, which isolate the patient by alienation from people.

As is the case with mental illnesses, the causes are unknown, but some factors have been identified that can contribute to their appearance, such as sexual or physical abuse in childhood, abandonment, family history, and brain dysfunctions.

Although there is no cure, it is possible to lead a normal life thanks to the treatments available today.

Signs and symptoms Borderline personality disorder

Personal undervaluation.
Excessive stress
Heightened paranoia.
Self-sabotage and high-risk behaviors.
Existential vacuum.
Uncontrolled anger.
Panic at the possibility of being abandoned.
Intense conflictive relationships.
Suicidal behavior and self-flagellation.
Emotional and mood changes from one moment to another.

If left untreated, this condition can damage your life in many areas, such as:

Little or no job stability.
Dropping out of school.
Criminal conduct and legal problems.
Ephemeral and problematic relationships.
Self-harm.
Illnesses and accidents due to high-risk behaviors.
Suicidal behavior.
Alcoholism and drug addiction.
Tendency to suffer other mental illnesses.

Diagnosis and treatment Borderline personality disorder

The range of personality disorders uses the following aspects as a diagnostic basis:

Review of symptoms and clinical history.
Physical examination.
Deep interview.
Complete psychological evaluation.

Psychotherapy is the indicated treatment for borderline personality disorder, although it can also be combined with drugs such as anxiolytics, antidepressants, and antipsychotics. In the event that the specialist determines that there is a risk for the patient itself, he or she may request hospitalization.

At the Neurological Center, a select group of highly professional and certified doctors in the various neurological specialties are ready to assist you with the quality and warmth that characterizes us.

Our mission is to provide you with comprehensive and multidisciplinary care programs for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of nervous system diseases, always focusing our activities on your safety.

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Pfizer-
BioNTech

Pfizer-BioNTech

What is its effectiveness and what does it refer to?

Vaccine type: mRNA
Effectiveness: 95% after the second dose in the prevention of symptomatic COVID-19.

No Does not contain egg, latex, or preservatives.

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Two doses are needed, at least 21 days apart (or up to six weeks apart, if necessary).

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Pain where the injection was given, fatigue, headache, muscle pain, chills, joint pain, fever, nausea, malaise, and swollen lymph nodes.

How long will it take for me to be protected and what does it protect me from?
After 14 days of having the complete scheme (after the administration of the 2nd dose), the protection period is still under study. It protects us from serious COVID-19 or requiring hospitalization.

Moderna

What is its effectiveness and what does it refer to?

Vaccine type: mRNA
Effectiveness: 94.5% after the second dose in the prevention of symptomatic COVID-19.

Does not contain egg, latex, or preservatives.

How many doses are needed?
Two doses are needed, at least 28 days apart (or up to six weeks apart, if necessary).

Who should or shouldn’t get the vaccine?
People who should receive the vaccine are those over 18 years old.
People who should not receive the vaccine are those who have a history of anaphylactic shock (severe allergy) or who are allergic to any component of this vaccine.

What are the possible side effects of the vaccine?
Pain where the injection was given, fatigue, headache, muscle pain, chills, joint pain, fever, nausea, and swollen lymph nodes in the arm in which you received the injection.

Janssen/
Johnson
& Johnson

Janssen/ Johnson & Johnson

What is its effectiveness and what does it refer to?

Vector-based vaccine.
Effectiveness: 72.0% in the prevention of symptomatic COVID-19.
85% in the prevention of severe COVID-19.

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How many doses are needed?
Only one dose in needed.

What are the possible side effects of the vaccine?
Pain where the injection was given, headache, fatigue, muscle pain, chills, fever, and nausea.

How long will it take for me to be protected and what does it protect me from?
After 28 days of having the complete scheme (the last dose applied), the protection period is still under study. It protects us from 85% serious COVID-19 or requiring hospitalization.

AstraZeneca
and
Oxford
University

AstraZeneca and Oxford University

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Adenovirus vector-based vaccine.
Effectiveness: 82% after the second dose in the prevention of symptomatic COVID-19.

How many doses are needed?
Two doses are needed, at least 56 days apart (or up to 84 days apart, if necessary).

What are the possible side effects of the vaccine?
Pain where the injection was given, fatigue, headache, myalgia, arthralgia, and fever, which were mild to moderate in intensity and disappeared within 48 hours of vaccination.

Sputnik V

What is its effectiveness and what does it refer to?

Adenovirus vector-based vaccine.
Effectiveness: 92% after the second dose in the prevention of symptomatic COVID-19.

How many doses are needed?
Two doses are needed, at least 21 days apart (or up to six weeks apart, if necessary).

What is Borderline personality disorder?

Signs and symptoms Borderline personality disorder

Diagnosis and treatment Borderline personality disorder

Related centers and departments

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