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Signs and Symptoms-Borderline Personality
Borderline Personality Disorder is a common psychiatric condition which causes significant distress to individuals with the disorder, and often distress to their friends and families. Patients with borderline personality disorder are disproportionately represented in almost all psychiatric and psychological treatment settings including outpatient and inpatient programs.
The symptoms of borderline personality disorder include:
- Inappropriate, intense anger• Stress-related paranoid thinking or dissociative symptoms
- Chronic feelings of emptiness or boredom
- Recurring suicidal behaviors, threats or self-harming behavior, such as cutting or head-banging
- Impulsivity or dangerous behaviors including substance abuse, driving fast, unsafe sex, or binge eating
- Intense relationships often alternating between periods of idealization (feelings of closeness, safety) and devaluation (hatred, anger, suspiciousness)
- Marked instability in mood, usually over hours to days
- Extreme reactions to feelings of abandonment, either real or imagined
- Marked identity diffusion often manifested by unstable self-image
As there is significant overlap between the symptoms of borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder, it is not uncommon for them to be confused