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Loving Someone with BPD: A Model of Emotion Regulation Part I

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Click Basic Guidelines to Edit Master for Title Responding Style to People <strong>with</strong> <strong>BPD</strong><br />

• Don’t try to talk her out <strong>of</strong> feeling the way she does<br />

• Don’t remake your world to accommodate her emotional<br />

“fragility.”<br />

• Understand the tasks in emotion regulation<br />

– Re-orienting attention<br />

– Upregulate/downregulate physiological arousal<br />

– Stop from doing what emotion or mood tell us to do<br />

– Have a life <strong>with</strong> goals that are independent <strong>of</strong> emotion/mood<br />

• Remember that change is difficult for anyone and will be<br />

painful for your loved one<br />

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