Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents Quotes

“Rather than the concept of high functioning, I would consider “effective functioning” or “skillful functioning.”
― Blaise A. Aguirre, Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: What To Do When Your Teen Has BPD: A Complete Guide for Families

“(The false self occurs when people are forced to comply with external expectations, such as being polite or looking attractive, when such expectations might be inconsistent with who they really are and how they would ordinarily act or feel. Over time, living in a perpetual false-self state can become extremely unhealthy as the person loses his or her sense of genuine self.)”
― Blaise A. Aguirre, Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: What To Do When Your Teen Has BPD: A Complete Guide for Families

“BPD have experienced trauma and, as a consequence, post-traumatic stress disorder, their level of BPD tends to be more severe and they take longer to recover. Also, they will need a specific type of therapy known as prolonged exposure (PE) in order to address any enduring symptoms of their trauma after their BPD symptoms are under control.”
― Blaise A. Aguirre, Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: What To Do When Your Teen Has BPD: A Complete Guide for Families

“STEPPS program, mentalization-based therapy, and cognitive analytic therapy. I”
― Blaise A. Aguirre, Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: What To Do When Your Teen Has BPD: A Complete Guide for Families

“Most parents have enough on their plate than to worry about making their own lives even more complicated than they already are.”
― Blaise A. Aguirre, Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: What To Do When Your Teen Has BPD: A Complete Guide for Families

“Nor should they sabotage the other parent’s authority in any way. If parents do argue, children then know which parent is on “their side,” and consistently go to that parent to get their needs met. The “agreeable” parent can then be stuck in a situation where the child now demands to be allowed to do some high-risk activity,”
― Blaise A. Aguirre, Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: What To Do When Your Teen Has BPD: A Complete Guide for Families

“Parents should generally not have disagreements or arguments about rules or child-rearing issues in front of their adolescent.”
― Blaise A. Aguirre, Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: What To Do When Your Teen Has BPD: A Complete Guide for Families

“If a parent sets a rule and the adolescent challenges it, saying the other parent has allowed a certain behavior, then saying that until the issue is clarified with the other parent the current rule sticks allows for clarity and less possibility of future manipulation.”
― Blaise A. Aguirre, Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: What To Do When Your Teen Has BPD: A Complete Guide for Families

“That’s between you and your mother (or father). Leave me out of it,” makes manipulation less likely to occur.”
― Blaise A. Aguirre, Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: What To Do When Your Teen Has BPD: A Complete Guide for Families

“Being honest takes courage, and it helps us trust you, whereas being sneaky or deceptive creates a lack of trust,”
― Blaise A. Aguirre, Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: What To Do When Your Teen Has BPD: A Complete Guide for Families