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Working Effectively with Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder
Brian Palmer, MD, MPH Psychiatry and Psychology
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure Honorarium None Stock or Patents None Consulting None Publishing/Royalties None Organization None Government None • Off-label use of medication will be described for
classes of medications
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Outline
• Overview of BPD • Emphasis on interpersonal nature of
symptoms • Course and Outcome
• Emphasis on comorbidity • Treatment approaches
• Psychosocial principles • Emphasis on clarifying experience and
reducing reactivity • Biological principles: Do no harm
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Borderline means… “Trouble. I am probably going to be unable to satisfy them, especially if they are not under the care of a psychiatrist.” “Heartsink! Truly, as much as I try to have compassion and understanding for these patients, the convoluted and circuitous thinking leaves my brain hurting.”
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Borderline means… “Manipulation by the patient and then anger towards me when they perceive I won’t do what they want.” “… go out of their way to make things difficult for me. When they present a problem they want to have you help solve, there are always conditions that make any solution untenable.”
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Personality Disorders
• Cluster A • Paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal
• Cluster B • Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic
• Cluster C • Avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive
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BPD Criteria • Interpersonal Hypersensitivity
• Abandonment fears • Unstable relationships (ideal/devalued) • Emptiness
• Affective/Emotion Dysregulation • Affective instability (no elations) • Inappropriate, intense anger
• Behavioral Dyscontrol • Recurrent suicidality, threats, self-harm • Impulsivity (sex, driving, bingeing)
• Disturbed Self • Unstable/distorted self-image • Depersonalization / paranoid ideation under stress
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Connected idealizing, dependent,
rejection-sensitive
Threatened devaluing, self-injurious
angry, anxious, help-seeking
Alone dissociated, paranoid
impulsive, help-rejecting
Desperate suicidal,
anhedonic
BPD’s Interpersonal Coherence
Interpersonal Stress
Support by the other Withdrawal by the other
Holding (hospital, jail, rescuer)
Gunderson 2014
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Basic Epidemiology
• Prevalence • Roughly ~20% of clinical samples • 1.2 - 5.9% of the community samples
• Gender • Approximately ~75% female in clinical samples • More equal M:F ratio in community samples
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Heritabilty / Familiality
• Across two twin studies, one family study • 55% heritibilty for BPD • Single latent factor accounts for the co-
occurrence of interpersonal, emotional, behavioral and cognitive components
Gunderson, Arch Gen Psychiatry, 2011; Kendler, Acta Psychiatr Scand, 2011;
Distel, Biological Psychiatry, 2009
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Amygdala Hyperreactivity (Ekman Faces)
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Response to Facial Expressions With intranasal oxytocin administration, marked reduction in amygdala activation in borderline patients.
Bertsch, Am J Psych, 2013
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Make the Diagnosis
• 40% of patients who do have BPD and do not have bipolar disorder have previously been inaccurately diagnosed with bipolar disorder
Zimmerman 2010
• Comorbid depression does not impact the accuracy of BPD assessments
Morey 2010
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BPD’s Longitudinal Course
Num
ber o
f Crit
eria
(CLP
S)*
10 8 6 4 2
0 2 4 6 8 10
100% 80% 60% 40% 20%
% R
emitt
ed (M
SA
D)*
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Years of follow-up
6.7
3.8 2.8
34.5
49.4
68.6 80.4 81.7
*From the Collaborative Longitudinal Study of Pers Disorders (i.e., Gunderson, Archives 2011) **From the McLean Study of Adult Development (i.e., Zanarini, Am J Psych, 2003)
4.2
2.3 1.9 1.7
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Outcomes
• After 10 years one third had full-time work. Gunderson 2011
• BPD has a markedly negative effect on MDD (“treatment resistance”) until BPD remits, but MDD has only modest effects on BPD’s course.
Yoshimatsu and Palmer 2014
• BPD is most common reason for persistence of depression.
Skodol 2011
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Empirically Validated Treatments • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
• Linehan et al., 1993, 2006
• Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) • Bateman & Fonagy, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2008
• Schema Focused Therapy (SFT) • Giesen-Bloo et al., 2006
• Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) • Clarkin et al., 2007; Levy et al., 2006
• Systems Training for Emotional Predictability & Prob. Solving (STEPPS) • Blum et al., 2008
• General Psychiatric Management (GPM) • McMain et al., 2009 (after Gunderson & Links)
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A Spectrum of Approaches
Cognitive Behavioral Psychodynamic
DBT MBT STEPPS SFT TFP GPM
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Effective Clinical Management of BPD
April 19, 2017
Los Angeles, CA
John Gunderson, MD
Brian Palmer, MD
ce.mayo.edu
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Common Features of Effective TX
• Structured (groups and individual work) • Coherent and stable, not reactive • Crisis planning • Supervision for managing countertransference • Therapists are active • Monitoring progress and goals • Making narrative sense of internal experience
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Reactive Treatment: Perilous
• Persons with BPD often seek treatment REACTIVELY
• Example: Migraine Headaches • more medication overuse headaches • more unscheduled (acute) office visits • lower overall treatment response
Rothrock, Headache, 2007
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Goal
• Help the patient figure out what they’re experiencing and what they want. • 1. Lower emotion and clarify experience by
validating. “Get” the patient. • 2. THEN, consider what to do. • 3. Avoid “BUT” and use “AND” • 4. Motivational interviewing style. Name the
dilemma but don’t provide the solution (let the patient do that).
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Patient Video
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Problem: Circular Thinking
• Make sense of nonsense • “Circular thinking” and “demanding” means
high emotion with low cognition. • First, lower emotion by validating • Then find a “both-and” way to think
together. When something doesn’t make sense, say so!
“I’d guess this whole thing is scary. You certainly didn’t ask for this struggle. Help me understand the problem you want help with?”
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Problem: Demands
• Your job is to practice medicine within the standards of care. Observe your limits. • Let patients know directly what you will and
won’t do as part of your practice. • It’s good to address the process.
“I never prescribe benzodiazepines and opioids and stimulants together; you can choose which one you think is most helpful and necessary.” (“Surely you don’t want me to do something that I think is unsafe?”)
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Problem: You feel guilty
• It’s okay to have your own (negative) feelings. • Most of us can’t stand feeling negative
emotions toward people we’re supposed to help. It’s okay. Better to acknowledge!
• Pulling away from a patient in distress can be harmful. Acknowledge, get support, try to stay engaged.
• Sometimes telling the patient of your frustration can help (they have it too!).
“Is this as frustrating for you as it is for me?!”
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Problem: Splits
• The “good” side of the split is harder – and most important – to see. If a patient with BPD is devaluing of a colleague or other staff: • Avoiding opining on your colleague’s
behavior • Redirect the patient to your colleague –
frame it as an opportunity. “I think Dr. Leep Hunderfund would want to hear about your concern, and I think it would be good for you to try to tell her. Up for it?”
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Meds: Key Principles 1) Collaborate to determine goals and set expectations
Reduce headache frequency (measured by…) Reduce headache intensity (measured by…) Reduce days of work missed, etc
2) Measure the effectiveness of the intervention
3) Use a methodical approach to medication trials. Careful on adding without subtracting
4) Hold reasonable limits
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At a Glance – One Missing Class?
Antipsychotics Antidepressants Mood Stabilizers
Anger ++ + +++
Depression 0 0 +
Anxiety 0 + ++
Impulsivity + 0 +++
Cognitive/ Perceptual ++ 0 0
Functioning + 0 ++
Adapted from Ingenhoven 2010