Medications vary: While different types of medication can be used to treat various aspects of borderline personality disorder, individual psychotherapy is the cornerstone treatment for this condition. Augmentation of individual therapy, such as dialectical behavioral therapy (dbt), and group therapy may occur with medication classes including antidepressants and mood stabilizers including anticonvulsants and atypical antipsychotics.
Answered 4/13/2016
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Borderline Meds.: No drugs have shown success in treating the core symptoms of this disorder, however, medications can be used to treat associated comorbid disorders' symptoms to include; antipsychotic agents such as Abilify (aripiprazole) for anger/impulsivity/depression/paranoea, mood stabilizers such as Depakote for mood swings & impulsivity & anger, antidepressants such as tricyclic antidepressants.
Answered 6/24/2015
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