Treatment for personality disorders may include psychotherapy, medication, family therapy, and changing routines.
The treatment of choice for personality disorders is the cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy. The duration is long, and may take years, and requires great effort on the part of the therapist.
Psychotherapy is critical to the success of treating personality disorders as it helps the patient to identify their instability and monitor it to change the pattern of behavior and develop self-control.
However, people with personality disorders often have resistance in accepting psychotherapeutic treatment. The results are unsatisfactory and the changes are quite limited.
The medicines used in the treatment of personality disorders serve to control depression, psychosis, anxiety, impulsivity, among other disorders.
Cases of borderline (borderline) and schizotypal disorders can be treated with neuroleptics, as these individuals often manifest paranoia, communication difficulties, and other psychotic symptoms.
Unstable borderlines and antisocial individuals with poor impulse control may benefit from drug treatment antidepressants. The goal is to control suicidal impulses, which have a high prevalence in these types of personality disorders.
Anticonvulsants can be used to treat impulsive and self-injurious behavior.
The psychiatrist is the specialist responsible for the treatment of personality disorders.
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