TMS treatment for borderline personality disorder

Borderline personality disorder has many symptoms, which tend to fall into four groups. These symptoms can include:

1. Emotional instability:

• Intense anger
• Sadness and sorrow
• Shame and humiliation
• Terror and inexplicable fear
• Emptiness and loneliness
You may have severe mood swings when suffering with BPD and unpredictable changes in mood is one of the key symptoms.

2. Jumbled patterns of thinking (cognitive distortion):

• Feeling as though you are a terrible person
• Wondering whether you truly exist
• Briefly hearing voices or hallucinating
• Experiencing strong beliefs that no one can talk you out of
If you are suffering with severely distorted perception, this can be a sign you are becoming more unwell and it’s important you seek help.

3. Impulsive behaviour:

• Self harm e.g. cutting or burning yourself
• Reckless drinking/drug misuse
• Irresponsible spending or gambling
• Unsafe sex

4. Unstable relationships:

• Feeling abandoned by those you love
• Feeling the opposite and as though you are being smothered with love
• Experiencing a frantic urge to stop people leaving you
• Believing relationships are black and white with no grey areas e.g. believing your partner either loves you intensely or telling them to leave rather than appreciating they are cross, tired or busy