Provide a brief description of any biological influences on the memory of individuals with this disorder.

A person’s intelligence and minds power has a close collaboration with biological factors; mental power has some elements of hereditary thus influenced by biological factors. When a child is born in a family with people of short memory, the child is more likely to follow in the same step. Personality disorder is influenced by inborn traits that a person gets from their parents; some characters and traits run down a family, thus a child born from a family with a certain personality disorder is likely to develop the disorder too.

Is there any memory distortions commonly involved with the disorder?

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with short memory lapses; a patient suffering the condition is likely to start something but be carried away by something else rather than the original thing he was doing. His mind is not settled on one thing but does more than one thing at a time. When starting the second activity, he is likely to have forgotten that he was doing the earlier (Brand, 2009).

Evaluate the effectiveness of at least two therapies used to treat the disorder.

Personality disorder conditions cannot be treated using medication but they are treated using psychological therapies; in treating Borderline personality disorder, (BPD) two therapies are used:

Group therapy

These are artificial communities developed to engage people with the disorder. The environments give the patients a chance to interact and participate in different activities calling for decisiveness. In so doing the patients learn how to make and hold to a certain decision as well accommodate others in his decision.

Therapeutic communities

The approach taken by this therapy is that an artificial environment is created where there are different roles that are supposed to be undertaken. At different times, there is rotational leadership role among the members to ensure that they all get a chance to make the controlling decision, by so doing they raise the esteem of members. In both the therapies, experts are on the ground to improve individual people’s behaviour and assist them mould their personality (Mullins-Sweatt & Widiger, 2010).

Conclusion

A person suffering from this disorder has a problem in self-identity and self-esteem, the person feels that he does not understand himself and other people can easily manipulate him. Some of the symptoms of the disorder are memory lapses and low concentration; the condition can be treated using psychological therapies, the commonly used therapies are group and therapeutic therapy.

References

Brand, B., et al. (2009). Personality differences on the Rorschach of dissociative identity disorder, borderline personality disorder, and psychotic inpatients. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. 1(3), 188-205.