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Inpatient Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment at Icarus Nevada

If you have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you know how tumultuous it can be on a daily basis. Maybe you’re ready to seek help and stop the rollercoaster that comes with this diagnosis. Inpatient treatment is often the best option to begin. What sets apart experienced BPD residential treatment centers?

Borderline personality disorder treatment consists of dialectical and cognitive behavior therapy, group therapy and peer support groups, and medication management. It also enables your treatment team to assess you for other mental health issues. Consider your holistic health with complementary therapies like yoga and exercise.

Icarus Behavioral Health Nevada offers a robust and comprehensive treatment center where you can find a place to land for help. Our enrollment team can answer your questions about care in a quick and confidential phone call.

Keep reading to learn more about the type of treatment you might encounter with BPD and why you should choose our program .

Treatment Protocol for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

Treating borderline personality disorder requires an array of coordinated services that can address the root causes of BPD. At the same time, it’s important to teach coping skills that allow someone who has this condition to thrive in their day-to-day life.

Your therapy sessions may be quite intense and require a lot from you. This is why inpatient treatment is often the best option when you first start your recovery process. The good news is that research points to successful treatment modalities to aid this healing process. Here are some services you might expect to find in BPD treatment.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical behavior therapy is the top treatment option for someone who struggles with borderline personality disorder. It was designed specifically for BPD treatment and has since been adapted to treat other mental health conditions like addiction, depression, anxiety disorders, and more.

DBT offers a safe space for you to learn emotional regulation within your therapy sessions. You might already be familiar with some of its tools, like mindfulness, where you try to be present in the moment. This type of therapy equips you with coping skills when your mental health issues feel overwhelming.

At its core, it’s a form of talk therapy that can be administered either individually or via group therapy.

These are a few of the tenets of DBT for borderline personality disorder:

• Reduction of self-destructive behaviors like self-harm or suicidal thoughts
• Limiting extreme behaviors that inhibit the therapeutic process
• Improving the quality of life by addressing problematic behaviors that hold you back
• Learning new coping skills to replace unwanted behaviors

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)

While DBT might be the frontline treatment for borderline personality disorder, you can still benefit from other types of therapy. Cognitive behavior therapy is another top choice that can help you alter the way you think and ultimately act on impulses related to your BPD.

CBT helps clients explore the relationship between their thoughts, feelings, and actions. The idea is that your thoughts and feelings lead you to act in a specific way, typically a harmful way when BPD impulses arise. If you can change your thoughts and feelings before you act on them, you may avoid some of the fallout from your intense emotions.

This type of therapy helps you to reframe distorted views of reality, shape interpersonal effectiveness, and reduce suicidal thoughts. It’s just as important as DBT in a well-rounded treatment program.

Exploring a Supportive Environment with Group Therapy

Another important component of a borderline personality disorder program is establishing healthy and productive relationships with the people around you. Oftentimes, people who struggle with BPD have a hard time maintaining close relationships due to their desperate or manipulative behavior.

Your program focuses on helping you change that pattern, which starts with group therapy.

You can learn a lot from the work that other people are doing on their own issues. Plus, it sets the stage for you to receive feedback from people other than your therapist, helps you feel less alone, and offers you the opportunity to learn new communication skills.

Medication Management

Mental health professionals may recommend that you pursue more than just talk therapy for your BPD. Untreated borderline personality disorder can be notoriously difficult to treat. Medication management helps you gain more traction with your recovery and helps with co-occurring disorders.

Unfortunately, there isn’t one medication that you can take to curb symptoms of borderline personality. A skilled medical professional will take a comprehensive assessment of your mental health issues and your symptoms to see what might be the most effective option.

Your treatment protocol could include antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, or anxiolytic drugs that reduce anxiety. Some people find success with a combination of these prescription drugs along with their mental health treatment.

Mental Health Treatment for Bipolar Disorder, Eating Disorders, and More

It’s relatively common for a person with BPD to have symptoms of other mental health conditions like bipolar disorder, substance abuse, and eating disorders. BPD symptoms often show up as depression or anxiety and can benefit from treatment for those conditions.

When you enter a BPD treatment center, you should be given a comprehensive assessment to look for the signs of personality disorders as well as some of these mental health issues. They will influence the types of therapy you engage in as well as the type of medication prescribed.

It will be hard to learn life skills until mental health is treated.

If you have any concerns at all about your mental health, you should broach them with your doctor. It can be easy to miss some of the symptoms of these issues in the blur of your BPD symptoms. Being honest and upfront about your experiences and struggles helps make an accurate diagnosis.

Why Choose Inpatient BPD Treatment at Icarus Nevada?

Why should you consider pursuing inpatient treatment at Icarus Behavioral Health Nevada for your BPD treatment? Our facility is equipped to offer you a safe space to land when you’re ready to seek help for this condition or any mental health disorders. Here’s what you should know about our program.

Around-the-Clock Access to Care and Safety

One of the issues for people in a borderline personality disorder treatment program is that they tend to have mood swings and impulsive behaviors. Especially as they start to deal with the underlying causes that present themselves in therapy, these occurrences can increase. When you enroll in an inpatient program, you’re guaranteed to be safe for the time that you’re with us.

There is no access to implements that can be used to self-harm, and you won’t be able to act on suicidal impulses. This can be a huge relief for many struggling people and their families.

What can you do instead of acting on self-destructive behaviors? Instead, inpatient grants you access to 24/7 care that enables a clinician or medical professional to talk through your impulses and mood. This can reinforce the lessons from your therapy sessions and help you implement new coping skills.

Family Involvement in Therapy

Oftentimes, people in borderline personality disorder treatment will need to repair the damage done to their close relationships. Family therapy gives you a safe space to do just that. The benefit of trying to conduct family therapy in residential treatment centers is that it continues to give everyone the space they need to process.

Difficult emotions and situations often arise in these sessions. It’s beneficial for you to have the help and support you need from our counselors. But it’s also important for your loved one to have space to process what they learn and to work on healing from a distance.

Icarus aims to keep you connected to your support system while helping you and your family members to heal.

Comprehensive Mental Health Evaluation

We don’t just treat borderline personality disorder. When you’re admitted to our residential treatment centers, we will conduct a very thorough assessment to make sure that we aren’t missing any of the underlying issues like mood disorders or anxiety that can worsen symptoms.

This also enables us to offer appropriate medication management.

If you have other mental health issues, it doesn’t mean that you can’t heal from BPD. It just means that you may need added support from our residential treatment program. We will tailor a treatment program just for you with the right types of therapy as we monitor your progress.

Supervision for Medication Management

While medication is helpful for treating mental health disorders and getting a handle on the impulsive nature of BPD, it doesn’t come without risks. You may experience side effects of the medications you take which can make you uncomfortable, such as issues with sleeping.

Our doctors and staff monitor you at all times to ensure you tolerate the prescription well.

If you encounter an issue, we may be able to alter your prescriptions or teach you healthy coping skills to adjust to your new medication regimen. The treatment process may not be as straightforward as we hope for, but 24/7 monitoring for your medication management is important.

Emphasis on Holistic Health

When you have borderline personality disorder, you might think that you need intensive care that is all about talk therapy sessions. But Icarus Nevada believes that a person’s life extends beyond the four walls of our treatment center. We emphasize holistic health rather than treating just the symptoms of your frequent mood swings.

You can expect complementary therapies like yoga that can help you learn mindfulness and practice the basics of your DBT therapy. However, we also believe in taking people out into the stunning landscape right here around us in Nevada. You’ll find yourself going on tours and hiking through the mountains with our help.

Time spent in nature can be just as therapeutic as a structured therapy session. When combined with exercise, you might feel better than you have felt in a long time, and those feelings can encourage you to pursue these healthy coping mechanisms when you graduate.

Most Insurance Policies Accepted

Is cost the thing that’s holding you back from receiving treatment for your BPD? Icarus Nevada never wants the sticker price of residential treatment centers to keep you from getting the help you need. We accept most insurance policies to help alleviate this concern.

Many people are surprised to learn that their insurance may fully cover the cost of care.

Instead of reaching out to your insurance company, which can be time-consuming and frustrating, allow our enrollment team to verify your benefits for you. It takes just a few minutes for us to review a policy and give you some insight into what your healthcare will cover. There’s no obligation to enroll, and calls are always confidential.

Enroll in Inpatient Treatment for BPD at Icarus Nevada

When you’re ready to seek help for borderline personality disorder, Icarus Behavioral Health Nevada is ready and waiting.

We offer a full continuum of care to help you transition from inpatient back to daily life and responsibilities. We offer the supportive environment needed to give you space to learn new skills and process what you learn.

Our enrollment team can answer any questions you might have about our program. Reach out to us today to learn more and reserve a spot in our inpatient program!

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