Borderline Personality Disorder Case Study 2022

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BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Diagnosing symptoms of Borderline personality disorder..............................................................2
Katy’s legal status under Mental Health act 2007(NSW)...............................................................3
Risks associated with managing BPD patients................................................................................3
Pharmacological and Non-pharmacological ways of treating BPD patients...................................3
Rationale of multi-disciplinary team members................................................................................4
Evidences to discharge patients.......................................................................................................4
Nurse’s role in providing care.........................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
Katy is a 23-year-old girl who has studied nursing in UK. After studies completion, she
came back to Australia to work as an AIN in a large hospital. The prime reason for her returning
to Australia was her adoptive mother’s death. She got to know after her adoptive mother’s death
that her biological and adoptive mother were sisters, as her real mother also lives in Sydney. She
came to Australia to stay close to her. On her birthday, she met her biological mother. After
meeting with her, Katy’s mood darkens and she find hard to motivate herself to do mundane
tasks of the day. Her mood exacerbated to such an extent that dark thoughts in her pushed her to
suicidal risks. The case study is about the 23-year old Katy who suffers from Borderline
personality disorder. The following report discusses about the Borderline Personality disorder, its
symptoms, cure, and the legal status of Katy under the Mental Act 2007(2007)
Diagnosing symptoms of Borderline personality disorder
Katy who suffers from Borderline personality disorder has strange mood swings. Her
mind is always occupied with vague thoughts. She finds herself mentally cluttered that hampers
her self-image. She explains that there are days when she feels herself like a vacuum while on
other days, she experiences the storm of colorful thoughts. She says that it is difficult to describe
her emotional condition in lucid words. There are voices, which play inside her head all the time,
and it becomes difficult to for her to differentiate the real voices of the people with those playing
inside of her head. She blames the voices for lack of her social connections with real humans.
The all-different reality being played in her head make her feel that she does not belong to this
world. She is as a bubble trapped in an invisible reality (Brush, 2017). These symptoms make
it difficult to do her mundane tasks well. It also affects her behavior with people thus resulting in
unstable relationships. The affected relationships are the cause of her chronic emptiness. These
recurrent queer thoughts are pushing her to the suicidal edge ( Becker, 2019).
American psychiatric association has released the manual guide in past, the name of the
handbook is The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The manual guide
consists of various criteria to classify a situation as a mental disorder. It contains symptoms and
descriptions about various mental disorders. It is termed as a medium for a doctor to convey to