Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline personality disorder is a mental disorder that belongs to the group of mental illnesses called personality disorders. Therefore, like other personality disorders, it is characterized by a consistent pattern of thinking, feeling, and interacting with others and with the world that tends to cause significant problems for the sufferer. Specifically, BPD tends to be associated with a pattern of unstable ways of seeing oneself, feeling, behaving, and relating to others that markedly interferes with the individual's ability to function.

Borderline Personality Disorder had been thought to be a set of symptoms that include both mood problems  and distortions of reality psychosis, and therefore was thought to be on the borderline between mood problems and schizophrenia. However, while the symptoms of may be similar , this illness is more closely related to other personality disorders in terms of how it may develop and occur within families. Borderline Personality Disorder occurs equally in men and women in general, while primarily in women in groups of people who are receiving mental-health treatment.

While men with are more likely to also have a substance-use disorder. Borderline personality disorder is more likely to be associated with eating disorders symptoms in women. In adolescents, Borderline Personality Disorder often cooccurs with more anxious and odd personality disorders like schizotypal and passive aggressive personality disorder.

Borderline Personality Disorder is not recognized worldwide. It is diagnosed as emotionally unstable personality disorder in some parts of the world. Although there is no specific cause for Borderline personality disorder, like most mental disorders, it is probable a combination of biological vulnerabilities, ways of thinking, contribute.

It can somewhat run in families. A person is more vulnerable to have difficulty managing their emotions, particularly impulsive aggression. Their social tendencies make for great difficulty in their relationships. These people are more likely to have suffered in their childhood abuse or neglectful parenting

Adults who come from families where divorce, neglect, sexual abuse, substance abuse, or death occurred are at higher risk of developing Borderline Personality Disorder. In children, the risk for developing this disorder appears to increase when they have a learning problem or certain temperaments. Adolescents with an alcohol-use disorder are also at higher risk of compared to those who do not.

Unstable self-image, in that they may drastically and rapidly change in the way they perceive their own likes, dislikes, strengths, weaknesses, goals, and intrinsic value as a person Unstable relationships, in that individuals with this disorder rapidly, drastically, and often frequently change from seeing another person as nearly perfect, to seeing the other person as being  worthlessness; unstable emotions ,affect, in that they experience marked, rapid changes in feelings; for example, severe anger, joy, euphoria, anxiety, including panic attacks and depression that are stress related, even if the stresses may be seen as minor or negligible to others; frequent efforts to avoid being abandoned, whether the abandonment is real or imagined. Significant impulsivity, in that the person with they act before thinking to the point that it is self-damaging; sexual behaviors, spending habits, eating habits, driving behaviors, or in the use of substances ; recurring suicidal behaviors, threats, or attempts ; chronic feelings of emptiness; inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty managing their anger when it occurs Transient, stress related paranoia or severe dissociation , having  lapses in memory is often commonly found in Borderline Personality Disorder