Intense feelings, relationship problems, and acting impulsively? Medication and therapy might not be fully helping with borderline personality disorder or other personality disorders. There’s a new way to address the root causes in your brain, not just the symptoms.
The Personality Disorder Struggle: When You’ve Tried Everything
Have you been feeling trapped in a cycle of intense, overwhelming emotions that shift without warning? Does borderline personality disorder (BPD) or another personality disorder leave you feeling misunderstood, exhausted, and stuck in patterns you can’t seem to break? Perhaps you’ve invested years in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), or countless medication trials, only to experience limited relief or frustrating side effects. Maybe you’ve been told that medications “aren’t really for personality disorders,” yet you continue to struggle with emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, anger outbursts, chronic emptiness, and relationship instability.
You’ve done the work: the therapy, the skills training, the medication adjustments – but something still feels fundamentally broken.
Here’s why: personality disorders, particularly BPD, are not simply psychological or behavioral problems that can be “talked away” or medicated into submission. At their core, they involve dysfunctional brain circuits: specifically, overactive emotional centers (like the amygdala) and underactive regulatory regions (like the prefrontal cortex) that create the intense emotional storms you experience. Chemical solutions like antidepressants and mood stabilizers can’t fully fix these electrical problems in your brain’s emotional regulation system.
What is TMS Therapy for Personality Disorders?
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive, evidence-based brain stimulation technology that uses precisely targeted magnetic pulses to recalibrate the neural circuits responsible for emotional regulation, impulse control, and mood stability. While TMS is FDA-cleared for major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, its use for personality disorders: particularly borderline personality disorder. represents an exciting frontier in neuropsychiatry, supported by promising emerging research. For individuals with BPD and related conditions, TMS specifically targets two critical brain regions: the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), which play essential roles in emotional regulation and impulse control.
By delivering calibrated magnetic pulses to these underactive regulatory regions, TMS helps strengthen your brain’s ability to modulate activity in the amygdala – the emotional alarm center that becomes hyperactive in personality disorders. This rebalancing of neural circuitry reduces emotional dysregulation, decreases impulsivity, calms anger responses, and improves your capacity for stable relationships and self-control. Research demonstrates that even a brief course of TMS, as few as 10 sessions, can produce significant improvements in anger management, emotional stability, impulsivity, mood swings, and overall BPD symptom severity.
Why Our Personality Disorder Program is Different
At SeeBeyond Medicine, we optimize your brain, not just treat it. While standard psychiatric care for personality disorders relies heavily on years of psychotherapy and multiple medications with limited efficacy and significant risks, we recognize that lasting transformation requires a fundamentally different approach. Personality disorders aren’t simply learned behaviors or chemical imbalances—they’re rooted in dysfunctional brain networks that require targeted neural intervention combined with comprehensive whole-person support.
That’s why we’ve developed our proprietary Enhanced TMS Protocol, a sophisticated, functional medicine approach that addresses every dimension of your neurological and physiological health for sustained healing.
Our Enhanced TMS Protocol includes four integrated components:
1. Neurotransmitter Testing (Pre & Post-Treatment):
Before beginning your TMS journey, we conduct comprehensive laboratory testing to measure your baseline levels of key neurotransmitters—including serotonin, dopamine, GABA, glutamate, and norepinephrine—that directly influence emotional regulation, impulse control, and mood stability. This objective data eliminates guesswork and allows us to understand your unique neurochemical profile. After completing treatment, we retest to document the measurable, biochemical changes occurring in your brain, providing concrete evidence of your neural transformation.
2. Calm IV Therapy
Throughout your TMS treatment course, you’ll receive specialized intravenous nutrient infusions designed to reduce nervous system hyperactivity, calm emotional reactivity, and support optimal neurotransmitter synthesis. Our Calm IV includes therapeutic doses of Magnesium—a powerful mineral that calms excessive neural firing and reduces anxiety—along with B Vitamins that serve as critical cofactors for producing serotonin, dopamine, and GABA. These nutrients create the ideal neurochemical environment for your brain to respond to TMS stimulation and rebuild healthy emotional regulation circuits.
3. Acupuncture Sessions
We integrate acupuncture throughout your treatment plan to enhance TMS outcomes, reduce systemic inflammation (which contributes to emotional dysregulation), balance the autonomic nervous system, and naturally boost Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF)—a vital growth protein that promotes neural healing and the formation of new, adaptive brain pathways. Acupuncture helps shift your nervous system from chronic hyperarousal into a more balanced, regulated state—essential for lasting emotional stability.
4. Health Coach Brain Health Sessions
Your comprehensive program includes personalized one-on-one sessions with our dedicated health coach, who will work with you to develop evidence-based strategies for stress management, emotional regulation skills, nutrition optimization, sleep hygiene, targeted supplementation, and lifestyle modifications. We address every factor that influences your brain’s capacity for emotional balance, ensuring that your TMS results extend far beyond the treatment room and become integrated into your daily life.
Your Partners in Healing in NY and CT
You’re a whole person with a unique story, unique biology, and unique potential for healing. Under the compassionate, expert guidance of Dr. Joon Lee and our specialized clinical team, you’ll receive truly personalized care that honors the complexity of personality disorders and addresses the root neurological causes, not just surface symptoms.
We believe that healing is always possible when you target the underlying brain circuit dysfunction with comprehensive, evidence-based interventions. Our integrative personality disorder program is available to patients at both our Scarsdale, NY, and Greenwich, CT clinic locations, bringing this advanced neuropsychiatric approach to individuals throughout Westchester County, Fairfield County, and the greater New York metropolitan area. Whether you’ve struggled with BPD for years or are seeking alternatives to medication-heavy approaches, our team is here to support your transformation.
Is TMS for Personality Disorders Right for You?
TMS therapy for personality disorders may be an ideal solution if you identify with any of the following:
- You’ve been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) or exhibit significant traits of emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, anger issues, relationship instability, or chronic emptiness
- You’ve engaged in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) or cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with partial but incomplete results, and you’re seeking an intervention that addresses the neurological foundation of your symptoms
- You’re frustrated by the limited effectiveness and significant side effects of psychiatric medications for personality disorders, including concerns about addiction, overdose risk, or medication misuse
- You experience intense mood swings, anger outbursts, impulsive or self-destructive behaviors, and emotional reactivity that interfere with your relationships, work, and quality of life
- You understand that true healing requires more than symptom management—you’re ready to invest in a comprehensive, brain-based program that creates lasting neural change
- You want objective, measurable proof of your progress through neurotransmitter testing and evidence-based treatment protocols
It’s important to note that while TMS is FDA-cleared for major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, its use for personality disorders is considered off-label, based on compelling clinical research demonstrating significant reductions in emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, aggression, mood instability, and self-harm behaviors. At SeeBeyond Medicine, we remain at the forefront of neuropsychiatric innovation, offering cutting-edge treatments supported by emerging evidence and tailored to your individual neurological profile.
Begin Your Journey to Lasting Relief
You don’t have to stay stuck in a pattern of intense feelings, acting on impulses, and having messy relationships. You don’t have to think “this is just me” or keep trying medications that don’t really work.
At SeeBeyond Medicine, we think healing is always possible if you tackle the real neurological reasons behind your condition. Personality disorders aren’t about being a bad person, and they’re not hopeless. They’re your brain’s emotional control systems needing help – a reset, and good care. Our Enhanced TMS Protocol uses the latest neuroscience along with thoughtful, practical medicine. This can help you get emotional balance, build better relationships, and find a sense of peace and control you thought was impossible. The first step is easy: a chat with us so we can understand your brain, what you’re going through, and how you can make changes.
Learn more about our foundational TMS therapy program and discover how we’re helping patients throughout Westchester and Fairfield Counties see beyond their diagnosis—and embrace lasting emotional freedom.
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