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How accurately can you read someone’s mind by looking at their face and judging their body language? This video is going to talk about this very thing and how it relates to those with and without BPD.

The goal of this video is to help you identify how well you can or cannot determine someone thoughts, emotions, and intent based upon their facial expression and body language. We also have to be wary of cognitive distortions, and in this case we’re going to talk about the distortion of mindreading.

Mindreading is the ability to know what someone is thinking, feeling, and intending to do based upon their facial expression, word they are saying, and their body language.

Folks with BPD mind read to try and beat someone to the punch, to avoid rejection, hurt, pain, and all those negative issues that make up core content that drives your surface expression.

Complexity and confusion come in because those with BPD are likely to take negative information and run with it, implying negative intent, but not everyone who is sad, afraid, disgusted, and angry is out to harm you. This is the cognitive distortion component that leads to problems in mindreading and causes this to be an intense trigger or emotional button to engage in negative beliefs, behaviors, and patterns that reinforce your BPD.

What can you do about mindreading? If you tend to mind read you need to stop, listen and observe, think, and calmly reason how to respond. Try calmly thinking about the situation as this will help you make better choices. Slowing down is key and critical. You have a good brain and can reason, it’s not your enemy, but when pushed it can blur your perspective leading to very negative outcomes that are unnecessary and hurtful.

Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in Texas, international speaker, and award winning author. He has been specializing in the treatment and assessment of individuals with personality disorders for over 15 years in the state and federal prison system, universities, and in private practice. His specialty areas include personality disorders, ethics, burnout prevention, and emotional intelligence.

He has published several articles in these areas and is the author of:

The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook: An Integrative Program to Understand and Manage Your BPD. Available May 1, 2019, but you can preorder it now at: https://goo.gl/LQEgy1'>https://goo.gl/LQEgy1

Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook: Treatment Strategies for Cluster B Personality Disorders (IPBA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award Winner): https://goo.gl/BLRkFy

Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox: 55 Practical Treatment Techniques for Clients, Their Parents & Their Children: https://goo.gl/sZYhym
The Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders: https://goo.gl/ZAVe9v

Dr. Fox has given numerous workshops and seminars on ethics and personality disorders, personality disorders and crime, treatment solutions for treating clients along the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum, emotional intelligence, managing mental health within the prison system, and others. Dr. Fox maintains a website of various treatment interventions focused on working with and attenuating the symptomatology related to individuals along the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum (www.drdfox.com).

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Citations:

Meehan, K., De Panfilis, C., Cain, N., Antonucci, C., Soliani, A., Clarkin, J. and Sambataro, F. (2017). Facial Emotion Recognition and Borderline Personality Pathology. Psychiatry Research, 255: 347354.