Tips: Survive Your Borderline Enchantress
3,633DBT, mindfulness effective
Abandonment anxiety -- preemption
Rituals and procedures of presence, permanence, stability, and predictability
Object inconstancy ---identity disturbance (emptiness)
Mementos
Programmed reminders
Mantras
Decompensation
Techniques to tackle anxiety and panic (breathing, journaling and reading aloud)
Acting Out (Self states, secondary psychopathy): impulsivity and recklessness
Decatastrophizing
Mirroring
Techniques for impulse control (redirection, motivation, reframing)
Emotional dysregulation
Verbalizing
Labeling
Externalizing
Chair work (emotions in chair)/dialog
CBT negative thoughts
Anger management techniques
Cognitive restructuring
Communication protocols
Humor
Mood lability
Physical activity
Sleep schedule
Routines
Stress management techniques
Outsourcing of ego functions
Regain locus of control
Develop and reward autoplastic defenses
Idealization-devaluation
Restore reality testing
Maintain the entire picture (integrate splitting)
Self-mutilation, suicidality
Sexual self-trashing, substance abuse, and reckless behaviors as self-harm
Prevention first involves being able to recognize the warning signs of suicide, which can include:
• Extreme mood swings
• Feelings of hopelessness
• Giving away possessions
• Losing interest in activities
• Talking about death or suicide
• Saying goodbye to family and friends
• Saying that they are a burden
• Withdrawing from friends and family
Do not judge, dismiss, or discount feelings
Listen
Encourage verbalizing
sublimate aggression
Dissociation
Journaling
Mementos
video recordings
programmed reminders
Transient paranoid ideation (persecutory object)
Reality testing: journaling, counter-paranoia (questioning/doubting),
Secret code or exit strategy (suspend/freeze)
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