Bianca Martinez: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder
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Bianca Martinez is an extremely proud two-spirit, queer, gender nonconforming Boricua warrior, mental health advocate and self proclaimed bruja by way of New York. Bianca is a co-producer of a new media platform called eres.you and the host of its video podcast eres.Tea Talks. A creative, educator, facilitator and activist, Bianca has spent much of their years working with youth and using their online presence to share resources and intimate stories about their own experiences battling mental illness. A poet by design, Bianca is a lover of all things nature and believes beauty can be found in the darkest of corners.
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a condition characterized by difficulties regulating emotion. This means that people who experience BPD feel emotions intensely and for extended periods of time, and it is harder for them to return to a stable baseline after an emotionally triggering event.
The cause of borderline personality disorder isn't well understood. Diagnosis is made based on symptoms. Treatments include talk therapy or, in some cases, medications.
It’s estimated that 1.4% of the adult U.S. population experiences BPD. Nearly 75% of people diagnosed with BPD are women. Recent research suggests that men may be equally affected by BPD, but are commonly misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, PTSD or depression.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) manifests in many different ways, but for the purposes of diagnosis, mental health professionals group the symptoms into nine major categories. In order to be diagnosed with BPD, you must show signs of at least five of these symptoms. Furthermore, the symptoms must be long-standing (usually beginning in adolescence) and impact many areas of your life.
Symptoms of BPD include: Fear of abandonment. Unstable relationships. Unclear or shifting self-image. Impulsive, self-destructive behaviors. Self-harm. Extreme emotional swings. Chronic feelings of emptiness. Explosive anger. Feeling suspicious or out of touch with reality.