Intensive feelings: Borderline trialog in Stuttgart ensures exchange

Intensive feelings: Borderline trialog in Stuttgart ensures exchange

The Borderline Trialog in Stuttgart offers a platform for open exchange between affected people, relatives and specialists. According to ZVW takes place twice a year in the Kulturwerk Stuttgart-Ost and regularly attracts over 140 participants. The participants wear colors coded name tags: white for those affected, green for relatives and red for specialists to facilitate communication and exchange.

In groups, various topics are treated and deepened by practical exercises. Julia Schmelz, a psychologist with her own practice, leads these valuable dialogues. Affected people often report a strong feeling of alienation and non-da mining. Borderline is classified as an emotional regulation disorder that goes hand in hand with inner tension and an urge to self -harm.

intensive emotions and challenges

feelings of shame and the fear of being abandoned shape the lives of many affected people. Interestingly, Borderline can also be seen as a result of traumatic experiences, whereby not all those affected are severely traumatized. Highly sensitive people often experience loneliness, even in loving environments. Two participants, Klara (25) and Nina (23), share their stories about dealing with the disease. Klara, who was diagnosed in 2020, often did not feel taken seriously, while Nina fought with inner emptiness and anger.

Therapy is important support for many. It helps to recognize behavior patterns and to distinguish between subjective perception and objective reality. Klara describes emotional experiences as an overwhelming waves that are triggered quickly and intensively, which often seems disproportionate to outsiders. Nina has also made progress and can better manage her high tension and recognize her patterns.

research on emotion regulation

Science expands our understanding of borderline personality disorders (BPS). A current study on the website of the EVKB Thems how patients with BPS experience high affective instability and quickly changing, intensive emotions.

research show that maladaptive emotion regulation strategies, in particular the suppression of feelings, can increase this instability. This mechanism could be particularly pronounced by BPS patients, which is examined in the studies by the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI). Acceptance of feelings, a concept that is often conveyed in the dialectical-behavioral therapy, could have positive effects on the emotional state.

The results of this research could have important implications for the therapy of those affected. Psychologist Julia Schmelz emphasizes that there is a genetic predisposition to sensitivity even after successful therapy.