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