Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Emotions Defined in CBT Learning

I want to take a few moments to tell you how the emotions work. Helping you understand emotions will help you improve your mental health more effectively.

Emotions develop from past memories, which emerge from past experiences and our knowledge. These emotions stem from our subliminal and unconscious mind. In this area of the mind are hidden messages. Most people with mental disorders experience extreme difficulties trying to deal with emotions that emerge because the hidden messages appear and it confuses them. Most of their memories are fragmented.

Most people who have been severely abused, as most Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) patients have, will suppress their memories. Every time a hidden message reveals itself they get terrified and react irrationally. It terrifies them mostly because they remember something painful from their past.

But, to get well a person has to be willing to explore the subliminal and unconscious mind where all the answers to your questions rest. To explore that mind, however, one must go through a series of Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Therapys.

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Emotions have several sides, i.e. joy, sad, happy, and anger. Most people with mental illnesses are unaware that they have the right to express these emotions anytime they choose.

For the most part people with mental illnesses (not everyone) will show anger by lashing out at others, or attacking them physically. Usually it is because the person was triggered (by recalling an associating experience in their past) that leads them to attack others. In other words, the person that causes them to feel threatened may have said or done something that triggered a memory that they recalled from a traumatic experience.

At other times the person may attack because of their fear of abandonment, which is followed by mixed emotions that causes confusion in return. These symptoms emerge and it is something that the patients cannot control.

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Emotions are tricky – sometimes you feel sad, other times happy, then angered, or full of joy. You don’t always have to know why you feel the way you do. It is OK to be angry, sad, joyful or happy anytime you like without having to explain yourself.

Emotions develop from past experiences, knowledge, our belief systems and our understanding of those learning acquired. When memories develop from the subliminal and unconscious mind, sometimes it is painful but most times it comes as a fragment. In order to recall details of that memory the person has to explore his or her past to find answers. This causes emotional upsets most times.

From past experiences of trauma, most of our memory goes into the subliminal and unconscious mind to protect us. Triggers ignite the emotions.

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Emotions are tricky – sometimes you feel sad, other times happy, then angered or full of joy. You don’t always have to know why you feel the way you do. It is OK to be angry, sad, joyful, or happy anytime you like without having to explain yourself.

You should see that to overcome your problems you will have to challenge the demons of your past. It will hurt, I won’t lie. But in the long run you will find true rewards and happiness from within.

Summary

Emotions can cause serious internal pain and suffering. Yet, to make them stop you have to go deep into the subliminal and unconscious mind to explore your past knowledge and experiences. We can do this by learning some stress and stress reduction techniques in CBT.