Borderline Personality Disorder has its roots in childhood trauma. Here's how that affects people with BPD mentally and physically over the course of their lives.
," state the authors of the research, led by Benjamin Otto of Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany."It seems that females are more frequently affected from BPD, at least in clinical settings, than males, with a ratio of about four to one."
To better understand the causes of Borderline Personality Disorder, the researchers recruited 95 adult women, 44 of whom were previously diagnosed with the disorder, to complete a series of psychological assessments including a life history questionnaire, a personality test, a questionnaire measuring aggressiveness, a childhood trauma questionnaire, and a chronic
questionnaire. The researchers also recorded participants'"allostatic load," or wear and tear on the body occurring from exposure to chronic stress, by measuring bodily indicators of stress such as blood pressure, waist-to-hip ratio, and body mass index.They found that participants with Borderline Personality Disorder scored significantly higher on the childhood trauma questionnaire than non-BPD participants.
"In line with expectations, BPD patients had significantly higher scores suggestive of a fast Pace-of-Life-Syndrome than controls, they were more aggressive, more burdened with chronic stress and were exposed to more severe childhood adversity," say the authors. They also report robust personality differences between BPD and non-BPD individuals. For instance, the researchers found that BPD participants exhibited higher levels of
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