Oxytocin-Nasenspray kann Menschen mit Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung dabei helfen, sich an der Selbstmitgefühlsmeditation zu beteiligen. Die Ergebnisse deuten auf einen möglichen neuen Weg zur Unterstützung von Menschen hin, die Selbstmitgefühlspraktiken oft als schwierig oder unangenehm empfinden.
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-New research [published](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165178126003549?via%3Dihub) in Psychiatry Research suggests that a nasal spray of the hormone oxytocin may help individuals with borderline personality disorder get more out of compassion-based meditation. The study provides evidence that oxytocin specifically improves a person’s ability to create and hold onto comforting mental images during these exercises. These early findings suggest a potential new way to support people who often find self-compassion practices difficult or uncomfortable.
Borderline personality disorder, commonly known as BPD, is a mental health condition characterized by intense emotional instability. People with BPD often experience severe difficulties in their relationships, deep struggles with their self-image, and sudden impulsive behaviors. These features make it exceptionally hard for individuals to regulate their emotions on a daily basis.
A major feature of this disorder involves high levels of self-criticism and shame. This tends to result in a habit of self-invalidation, where individuals constantly dismiss, minimize, or punish their own emotional experiences. This pattern of self-invalidation often stems from childhood experiences in environments where a person’s private emotions were ignored or rejected.
“Some individuals have difficulty feeling valued and exhibit a self-critical attitude, which constitutes a transdiagnostic variable that is both a source of vulnerability and a factor contributing to the persistence of mental disorders,” said study author Joaquim Soler. Soler is a clinical psychologist at the Borderline Personality Disorder Unit of the Psychiatric Department at Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona, Spain. He is also an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
“One of the disorders more often experiencing high levels of shame, self-criticism, and self-invalidation are individuals with borderline personality disorder, which can make self-compassion practices difficult or even aversive,” Soler explained. Because of these intense negative self-evaluations, compassion-based therapies can be highly beneficial for this population. These therapeutic practices teach people how to direct kindness and understanding toward themselves rather than harsh judgment.
Oh good more unregulated „peptide“ drugs
Great, now let’s let a huge group of laymen with no actual medical knowledge discuss how this is either a miracle drug or the next epidemic.
GO!
They didn’t test on a large group. I’d be interested in trying it. Getting mild relief from constantly diminishing and dismissing myself would be neat. I’d even take the placebo effect about it. It’s not fun living this way.
I was able to purchase an oxytocin nasal spray many years ago for a while before it became unavailable. I kept it in my car and I can 100% say it made me more relaxed, less irritable and more tolerating of people in traffic. I wish I could still get it. It was called Oxycalm.
I read this as Oxycontin and had to double back in shock
Oxytocin nasal spray seems like it could have a lot of applications for treating other disorders or symptoms. Seems like it could be helpful for anyone with loneliness, depression, or rejection sensitivity.
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is increasingly recognized as a neurobiological brain condition rather than a simple behavioral flaw. MRI scans show that individuals with BPD often have structural differences, including a hyperactive amygdala (heightened fear/stress response) and a less active prefrontal cortex responsible for impulse control.
This means a person’s brain with BPD processes emotions, social cues, and perceived threats differently, resulting in severe emotional dysregulation. However, because the brain is capable of neuroplasticity, **evidence-based treatments like Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) can help physically strengthen the brain’s regulatory circuits over time.**
Let’s stay with the evidence based treatments until we have far better studies than this one.
In no psychologist, but in a weird way, it kinda makes sense
Can’t love others until you love yourself. Look inwards and forgive that version you „hate“ and realize even your worst mistake doesn’t define you. You decide who you are.
Then you can see we’re all like that.
I’m convinced that self-compassion meditation releases oxytocin. So this makes sense.
That’s what we’re calling narcissim now?