BPD and Triggers - Gateways To Recovery

In this audio, Author, BPD and Life Coach, A.J. Mahari gives the listener an in depth understanding of Borderline Personality Disorder and the emotional triggers that are so central to having Borderline Personality Disorder. Mahari shares some her experience in how understanding triggers when she had BPD was a pivotal part of her recovery from BPD many years ago.

When those with BPD are triggered they experience a sudden increase in distress due to dysregulated emotion. Whether or not the person with BPD is in touch with, or aware of, his or her actual feelings, he or she will experience a sharp increase in emotional distress and discomfort. How that distress and discomfort manifests itself can vary for each person diagnosed with BPD. Central to this experience, however, is the desire and feeling of desperate need to get away from this distress and discomfort by whatever means necessary or whatever actions will provide an escape from the triggered dysregulated emotions.

Mahari provides insight into why this escape is destructive beyond the reality that many with BPD seek out self destructive maladaptive ways of coping when they are triggered. Trying to escape the reality of your triggers will only keep you firmly trapped in Borderline Personality Disorder. The more you succeed at escaping the pain of triggered Emotional Dysregulation the more you ensure re-experiencing the same triggers over and over again.

Mahari explains how and why this is and what you can do about it. She explains why it is so important to be willing to learn new ways of coping. She also talks about how you can cope effectively with the dysregulated emotion caused by being triggered and all of its accompanying anxiety, panic, stress, discomfort, and distress.

Learning to be open to your triggers and the distress of intensely heightened emotion combined with learning healthier and more effective ways of coping is the gateway to recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder. It is the journey from false self to authentic self in BPD Mahari explains just how you can learn to set yourself free from the seemingly endless cycles of borderline triggered emotional dysregulation and all of its suffering.