Memory and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): How They Impact Each Other?

Complex Borderline Personality Disorder: How Coexisting Conditions Affect Your BPD and How You Can Gain Emotional Balance. Available at:
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Memory is influenced by emotional content. Research suggests that emotional information interferes more strongly with information processing and learning in individuals with BPD than in non-BPD individuals.

Memory and negative info

In general, individuals with BPD do not seem to differ from those without BPD in their ability to memorize emotional information, but they do tend to have specific difficulties forgetting negative information. (BPD proneness to negative info and negatively skewed info – downward spirals).

Also, BPD patients seem to recall autobiographical, particularly negative events with stronger arousal than individuals without BPD. Generally speaking, a depressive mood seems to both deteriorate and negatively bias information processing and memories, and there is evidence that dissociative symptoms impair learning and memory independently of the type, regards if it’s good, bad, happy, sad, frightening, etc.

Recalling memories

Individuals with BPD have difficulties recalling specific autobiographical memories. These difficulties are related to their tendency to dissociate and may help them to avoid episodic information that would evoke a negative emotional response.

What can you do about it?

Remember the tendency to skew negatively and push back on those tendencies. Have positive pictures, and make happy slideshows on your phone to help you remember positive information. Is this magically going to flip your mood from negative to positive or improve your memory, no, but it will significantly increase the probability you’re happier and can utilize a less skewed frame of reference, which may increase your ability to encode new information easier and more accurately.

Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in Texas, international speaker, and a multi-award-winning author. He has been specializing in the treatment and assessment of individuals with personality disorders for over 20 years in the state and federal prison system, universities, and in private practice. His specialty areas include personality disorders, ethics, burnout prevention, and emotional intelligence.

He has published several articles in these areas and is the author of:

Complex Borderline Personality Disorder: How Coexisting Conditions Affect Your BPD and How You Can Gain Emotional Balance. Available at:
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Antisocial, Narcissistic, and Borderline Personality Disorders: A New Conceptualization of Development, Reinforcement, Expression, and Treatment. Available at: https://tinyurl.com/2anv8dww

The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook: An Integrative Program to Understand and Manage Your BPD. Available at: https://goo.gl/LQEgy1

Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook: Treatment Strategies for Cluster B Personality Disorders (IPBA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award Winner): https://goo.gl/BLRkFy

Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox: 55 Practical Treatment Techniques for Clients, Their Parents & Their Children (IPBA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award Winner):: https://goo.gl/sZYhym

The Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders: https://goo.gl/ZAVe9v

Dr. Fox has given numerous workshops and seminars on ethics and personality disorders, personality disorders and crime, treatment solutions for treating clients along the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum, emotional intelligence, managing mental health within the prison system, and others. Dr. Fox maintains a website of various treatment interventions focused on working with and attenuating the symptomatology related to individuals along the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum (www.drdfox.com).

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