BPD and Developing Physical Intimacy with Your Partner when You Have BPD

Complex Borderline Personality Disorder: How Coexisting Conditions Affect Your BPD and How You Can Gain Emotional Balance. Available at:
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Cope with your BPD symptoms using my BPD Card Deck: The BPD Card Deck: 50 Ways to Balance Emotions and Live Well with Borderline Personality Disorder. Available at: www.shorturl.at/jBHJV

We're going to talk about BPD and physical intimacy (sex). BPD is a mental health disorder that can cause a lot of difficulty in relationships, particularly with regards to physical intimacy. I'll be covering topics like trauma, physical closeness, and love. I hope that this video can help you learn more about what BPD is and how it affects you and your relationships.

Physical intimacy is a problem many individuals with BPD experience, whether male or female. These issues have been found through research to be based on impulsive desire to connect physically too quickly, reduced satisfaction from physical intimacy, increased boredom related to physical intimacy, avoidance of physical intimacy altogether, greater preoccupation with physical intimacy, and multiple complaints pertaining to physical intimacy.

Research also illustrates that individuals with BPD report more problems with physical intimacy related to fear and anxious symptoms following an experience of physical intimacy, and general difficulties with performance pertaining to physical intimacy.

Individuals with BPD were found to have more intimate encounters than those who did not have BPD. This was broken down and it was found that factors that impact frequency of encounters include if you’re in an ongoing relationship or not, and the level of rejection sensitivity or anxiety. If you’re in an ongoing relationship or have a higher level of rejection sensitivity or anxiety, intimate encounters were found to be equal to those without BPD.

Watch the video to find out about about how you can strengthen your connection to others, to include intimacy encounters.

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:

The BPD Card Deck: 50 Ways to Balance Emotions and Live Well with Borderline Personality Disorder. Available at: www.shorturl.at/jBHJV

Complex Borderline Personality Disorder: How Coexisting Conditions Affect Your BPD and How You Can Gain Emotional Balance. Available at:
https://rb.gy/hdyqyy

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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