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