Borderline personality disorder

Borderline personality disorder

a pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity

[This describes a pattern where a person has unstable relationships, an unclear or changing sense of self, and unpredictable emotions. They may also act on impulses without thinking about the consequences.]

Borderline personality disorder

efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment

Borderline personality disorder

A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.

Identity disturbance

markedly and persistently unstable selfimage or sense of self.

two areas

Impulsivity in at least _ that are potentially self damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating).(Note: Do not include suicidal or selfmutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.)

Borderline personality disorder

Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self mutilating behavior.

Borderline personality disorder

Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days).

Borderline personality disorder

Chronic feelings of emptiness.
Borderline personality disorder Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).

Borderline personality disorder

Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative impulse

Borderline personality disorder

• emotional instability

• anger

• impulse

• intense psychological

• usually require hospitalization, crisis

• great difficulty in being alone, brief

• relationship

• projective identification to protect themselves (the things you don't like about yourself, you project it to others)

• blaming others

• victims of childhood sexual abuse

• splitting defense mechanism