BPD and Self-Direction: Goals, Values, and Finding Yourself

Do you struggle to know what you want, stick with a path, or trust your own choices?

In this episode of The BPD Bunch, Xannie, Madhurima, Carys and Solène continue their discussion of BPD and self-direction through the lens of the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD), exploring how goals, values, identity, relationships, and recovery can all affect the way we build a life.

Under the AMPD, difficulties with self-direction are considered part of impairments in self functioning, alongside identity. To meet criteria for BPD in this model, a person must have difficulties in at least two areas of personality functioning: identity, self direction, empathy, or intimacy, along with four or more pathological personality traits, which we’ll be discussing in more detail later this season.

This episode is for anyone with BPD who has ever wondered why it can feel so hard to know who you are, what you want, or where you’re going.

We talk about:

* BPD and self-direction

* changing goals, values, and interests

* favorite people and life decisions

* identity, emptiness, and sense of self

* perfectionism, recovery, and self-acceptance

* learning how to follow through without getting trapped

* finding direction while still allowing yourself to change

This is part of our Season 7 series where we’re breaking BPD down in a more real, human way while also connecting it to newer ways of understanding personality.

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In the first two episodes of the season, Dr. Carla Sharp, Dr. Frank Yeomans, and Dr. Alex Stein explained what the AMPD is, how it changes from the current categorical model, and how the BPD diagnosis is changing.

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Part 2

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The BPD bunch is a YouTube talk show, featuring a panel of people who are in functional recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder. Each week we discuss BPD-related topics to help give you insights into the different ways BPD can be expressed in someone’s life. We also cover the different paths we followed on our recovery journeys to give you hope and direction for your own ❤️

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Disclaimer:

This video is for education only and is not meant to provide professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.