Borderline personality disorder

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Borderline personality disorder

Alternative Names:

Personality disorder - borderline

Symptoms:

Relationships with others are intense and unstable, swinging wildly from love to hate and back again. People with BPD will engage in frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.

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BPD patients may also have uncertainties about their identity or self-image. They tend to see things in terms of extremes, either all good or all bad. Such people also typically view themselves as victims of circumstance and take little responsibility for themselves or their problems.

Other symptoms include:

Frequent displays of inappropriate anger
Recurrent suicidal gestures such as wrist cutting, overdosing, or self-mutilation
Feelings of emptiness and boredom
Intolerance of being alone
Impulsiveness with money, substance abuse, sexual relationships, binge eating, or shoplifting

Signs and tests:

Personality disorders are diagnosed based on psychological evaluation and the history and severity of the symptoms.