Borderline Personality Disorder: Updates in a Postpandemic World.

Progress in understanding borderline personality disorder has unfolded in the last decade, landing in a new COVID-19-influenced world. Borderline personality disorder is now firmly established as a valid diagnosis, distinct from its co-occurring mood, anxiety, trauma-related, and behavioral disorders. Further, it is also understood as a reflection of general personality dysfunction, capturing essential features shared among all personality disorders. Neuroimaging research, representing the vast neurobiological advances made in the last decade, illustrates that the disorder shares frontolimbic dysfunction with many psychiatric diagnoses but has a distinct signature of interpersonal and emotional hypersensitivity. This signature is the conceptual basis of the psychotherapies and clinical management approaches proven effective for the disorder. Medications remain adjunctive and are contraindicated by some guidelines internationally. Less invasive brain-based therapeutics show promise. The most significant change in the treatment landscape is a focus on briefer, less intensive formats of generalist management. Shorter variants of therapies, such as dialectical behavior therapy and mentalization-based treatment, are in the process of being shown to be adequately effective. Earlier intervention and greater emphasis on functional improvement are needed to more effectively curb the disabilities and risks of borderline personality disorder for patients and their families. Remote interventions show promise in broadening access to care.

A Track from Attachment to Resilience During the Covid 19 Pandemic: Romantic Relationship Tendency

[...]of structural equation modelling, anxious and avoidant attachment styles had no effect on the purpose of social media usage and the purpose of social media usage had no effect on psychological resilience. [...]in a study conducted with individuals with earthquake experience, which can be considered as a disaster that interrupts life such as a pandemic, it has been revealed that there is a positive relationship between secure attachment styles and psychological resilience (Karaırmak and Güloǧlu 2014). In romantic relationships, individual attachment styles seem to match a specific style of emotion regulation and coping (Pietromonaco and Overall 2021). [...]examining the relationship between romantic relationship tendencies and attachment styles in this period can provide important information. In this study, not the attitudes of the participants in their romantic relationship, but their romantic relationship tendencies in general were measured. [...]in this study, it was tried to measure the tendency of the participants towards the romantic relationship rather than their attitudes and behaviors in their current romantic relationships.