What is borderline personality disorder

Question

could someone tell me the symptoms??? just curious =]

Answer 1

    * Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment

    * A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation

    * Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self

    * Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, s*x, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)

    * Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior

    * Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)

    * Chronic feelings of emptiness

    * Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)

    * Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms

Answer 2

It is like a miniature version of bipolar. Rather than have hyperactive moods for days on end, BPD's extreme moods can last for only minutes or hours at a time. Here are the symptoms:

Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment

A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation

Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self

Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, s*x, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)

Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior

Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)

Chronic feelings of emptiness

Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)

Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms