I have written to you earlier on my Borderline Personality disorder and you wrote back but am not following you on what you said :
One formulation of borderline personality disorder is that it involves a deficit in the "self soothing" function - the ability to make oneself feel OK/safe. Hence the symptoms of heightened sensitivity, anxiety, and irritability. The most effective treatments focus on teaching people how ways of making up for this deficit - hence the focus in dialectical behavior therapy on "distress tolerance" skills.
Can you explain this in more detail---?
I have been having problems with communicating with others, uncomfortable when people touch me, highly-sensitive to criticism and rejection with extreme anxiety along with angry outbursts with my family having these symptoms continously everyday. I do see a psychologist weekly and he does Cognitive Behavior Therapy but am unclear on the dialectical behavior therapy that you talked about, what is the difference? In the last 4 years, I have broken down on 3 jobs where I cry uncontrollably and severe anxiety and could not handle the pressure of working as a medical biller. Currently, I did find a part-time job entering demos for a medical billing co. PHONES are the thing that I feel very uncomfortable doing, dealing with public brings on my severe anxiety and phobias, and am anti-social in the office. I currently take Doxepin 100 mg and Trazodone 100 mg for depression and anxiety at bedtime.
In the past I was on benzies but it did not really help so that is why my dr put me on these other meds. Can you please tell me if these meds will help me and give me more details on my Borderline Personality. Thank-you.