Mental illness makes a notable difference to a person’s overall health, as it affects a person’s behavior, mood, and feelings. It also causes a disability of personal performance. It may be occasional or chronic.

Borderline

Borderline personality disorder is an intricate mental illness personalized by the eternal influence of insecure relationships, intense emotional reactions, and manipulated self-esteem. The deportment mostly sets about after adulthood, and turns out across diversity of situations. It is a miscellaneous complexion causing different agglomeration of symptoms such as mood or stress disorder.

Sociopath

Sociopath is used to describe people with antisocial personality disorder. This term refers to people who lack empathy, fail at understanding someone’s feelings, and are aggressive. They often end up with impulsive, reckless decisions that might cause harm to someone.

Borderline vs sociopath

Relationship 

Borderline

  • Fear of being neglected or abandoned.
  • Unstable relationship

Sociopath

  • Happen to be inclined to focus on themselves only.
  • Disguise themselves.

Behavior

Borderline

  • Extreme unconditional mood swings.
  • Fierce anger
  • Not thinking about consequences

Sociopath

  • Can be easily Irritable
  • Lack of empathy
  • Can be Dangerous
  • Shows offensive behavior
  • Not taking social measures into consideration

Feelings

Borderline

· Long-term feelings of worthlessness

Sociopath

· Not feeling remorse

Treatment

Borderline

Usually Borderline personality disorder is treated with psychotherapy, although no medication has been approved explicitly, certain medications may be adequately helpful with the symptoms, such as depression, anxiety, and impetuousness, but they do not confront with personality traits or behavior. Medications may contain antipsychotics, mood stabilizers and antidepressants.

Sociopath

Sociopaths people often don’t realize their problems. The treatment may not succeed if there will a lack of will power or cooperation. Most of the sociopath people are never diagnosed due to which they don’t seek treatment. The actual treatment is consists of helping the patients to work out on their thinking patterns, behavior, etc.    

Self-help strategies

Self-help strategies are an important part of the treatment, the great way to deal with the disorder is to learn about it as much as you can, to figure out ways to express your feelings, and to sort out the way to cope with the symptoms.

Complications

Borderline

  • Depression
  • Eating disorder
  • Anxiety disorder
  • Substance abuse

Sociopath

  • Underdevelopment of the part of the brain that controls emotions
  • Hostility
  • Suicidal behavior
  • Premature death

Causes and risk factors

Borderline

People who suffer from this disorder are mostly the targeted victims of abuse, (it may be mental, physical or sexual), abandonment during childhood or adolescence, unstable relationships, or family issues.  

Sociopath

The actual causes of antisocial personality disorder are unknown, however, genetics, environment, tragedies or traumas play a vital role in the development of this disorder.

Prevention  It’s a complicated job to prevent such disorders, but as we are aware of the fact that the development comes about during childhood or adolescent so we can always try to be able to spot early warnings and reduce the risk of mental illness occurrence to the new generations.