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\nThere’s a new study using oxytocin (often called the love hormone) to treat borderline personality disorder. To date we really don’t have a medication treatment for the disorder. I talk about the treatment for BPD when you also have...\nThere’s a new study using oxytocin (often called the love hormone) to treat borderline personality disorder. To date we really don’t have a medication treatment for the disorder. I talk about the treatment for BPD when you also have bipolar disorder here: • Can You Have Bipolar Disorder + Borde...

The main treatment for borderline personality disorder is dialectical behavior therapy and medication only to address other symptoms like depression or anxiety.

Here is my Personality disorder playlist: • Understanding Personality Disorders

In a nutshell, people with borderline personality struggle in relationships with mistrust, they fear being abandoned by the other person. This can create a lot of anxiety and depressed mood and impulsive, self-harming behaviors.

Some researchers believe that at the core of the disorder is impaired empathy and this is what causes the interpersonal problems.

So here’s what the new research looks like. Researchers out of Germany took a group of women and looked at 3 aspects of empathy: Cognitive, emotional and what they called approach motivation. They showed the women pictures of people expressing different kinds of emotions. Then they asked them to recognize the emotional state. This is cognitive empathy.

The Results
The women with BPD who got the 1 dose oxytocin nasal spray had a rise in their empathy scores that was equal to the women without BPD who didn’t get any treatment.

Their reaction to the people’s faces changed such that they were better able to relate to negative and positive emotions AND they had the feeling of wanting to be close to the people in the pictures.

This is definitely a positive finding. It can set the stage for clinical trials to use the drug as an add-on agent to therapy for BPD. Learning how to manage your emotions, tolerate distress and improve your relationships is still something that needs to be handled with therapy. A drug can’t teach you those things. But this study adds weight to the idea that biologically there’s something missing in people with BPD that makes it hard for you to do these things on your own.

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References

Domes, G., Ower, N., von Dawans, B. et al. Effects of intranasal oxytocin administration on empathy and approach motivation in women with borderline personality disorder: a randomized controlled trial. Transl Psychiatry 9, 328 (2019).\n
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