Borderline personality disorder

Clinic

• Also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD)
• 8 to 10% of people affected by the disorder may die by suicide

Signs /Symptoms

• Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
• Intense and unstable interpersonal relationships alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation, also known as "splitting"
• Distorted sense of self, Disturbed sense of identity, Distorted self-image
• Strong emotional reactions such as Suicidal disposition, Self-harm and dangerous behaviors
• Feeling of emptiness
• Fear of abandonment and dissociation
• Difficulty with returning their emotional level to a healthy or normal baseline
• Impulsive or reckless behaviors (Uncontrollable spending, Unsafe sex, substance use disorders, reckless driving, binge eating)
• Rapidly shifting intense emotional dysregulation
• Inappropriate, intense anger that can be difficult to control
• Transient, stress-related paranoid or severe dissociative symptoms
• Feeling unsure of one's identity, morals, and values
• Paranoid thoughts when feeling stressed
• Depersonalization
• Stress-induced breaks with reality or psychotic episodes

Related diseases

• MDD
• Bipolar disorders
• Substance use disorders
• Eating disorders
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Entities

• Behavioral change
• Psychosis

Remedies

Sudden Burst of Anger	Cham	Top remedy who easily get angry and quarrelsome without taking into account the feelings of the other person. Mostly because of contradiction or when the feelings are hurt. They are unable to control their temper They want to do everything as per their wish and get angry if their wish is not fulfilled.
	Mosch	The patient has sudden fits of anger and even scolds others till their face turns blue and they faint and fall down. The sudden outbursts of anger are accompanied by trembling and uncontrollable laughter. Obstinate and self-willed persons who right from their childhood have the habit of getting each and every demand fulfilled by hook or by crook. This habit continues in advancing years and outbursts of anger increase in intensity if their desire or demand is not met.
Sudden Mood Swings	Croc	The patient has a sudden and frequent change in mood from extreme happiness to sadness. He is joyous and affectionate in a specific moment and the very next moment unpredictably bursts out into anger. The patient very soon feels sorry for this behavior.
	Valer	They are excited easily with trembling and palpitations. The patients experience mood swings esp when resting and at night They feel better by walking. The mood swings from excitement and happiness to sudden sadness and irritability
	Ign	Sensitive nature and find it very difficult to control their emotions. Their mood changes from laughing to weeping and from happiness to sadness in quick succession in a very short time. History of some grief or disappointment in love affections prior to onset of the disease
Irritability	Sep	They get irritated over no reason and feel sad. Such patients have an aversion to talk along with irritability. Only their own opinion matters for such patients and they cannot bear to be opposed. Another marked symptom along with irritability is indifference to family and aversion to any work, be it mental or physical.
	Lil-t	They get aroused from even a slight emotional excitement with palpitations of heart. They are so irritable that cannot utter a decent word to anybody even if the other person speaks in the mildest tone possible. They sit for a long time thinking about themselves and don’t want to be disturbed. They get extremely irritated if disturbed and run away and even forcefully shut the doors.
Destructive and Impulsive Behavior	Nux-v	Nux-v is the top remedy for who are sensitive and want to force things according to will. If opposed, such patients have violent destructive impulses like an impulse in a woman to destroy her husband, to tear things and to throw her child. The patients requiring NuxVomica cannot even bear a chair to come in their way while walking and if such a situation arises, they just kick it to clear the way.
	Hep	Such patients are disturbed very easily by small things with violent impulses like the impulse to kill the best friend, to destroy everybody and to put things on fire without any cause.
	Bell	Impulsive patients who strike, bite and spit on the persons nearby with a red and hot face.
	Stram	He curses and indulges in excessive screaming till the voice is lost. The condition gets worse in darkness.
	Staph	It is the ideal remedy for patients who control their anger till the highest limit possible and when the level rises, they become violent and destructive and throw things.
Self-hatred, Suicidal Thoughts	Aur	He feels it’s of no use to live, life is a burden and constantly think of suicide.
	Lac-c	He feels hopeless, have a low opinion of themselves and feel no one is a friend. Such patients weep a lot and fear to be alone.
	Ant-c	No desire to live, who remain sad with weeping, have lost love for life and He wants to commit suicide.