Things never seem tough. Each challenge feels easier. I had a meeting today where the focus remained on borderline personality disorder (bdp). I would like to share about this disorder.
A person with borderline personality disorder often has unstable relationships, low self-esteem, and problems with impulsive behavior, all of which begin by early adulthood.
A common feature of this disorder is fear of being left alone (abandoned), even if the threat of being abandoned is not real. This fear may lead to frantic attempts to hold on to those around you and may cause you to become too dependent on others. Sometimes you may react to the fear of being abandoned by rejecting others first before they can reject you. This erratic behavior can lead to troubled relationships in every area of your life.
People who are diagnosed with borderline personality disorder have at least five of the following symptoms. They may:
1. Make frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
2. Have a pattern of difficult relationships caused by alternating between extremes of intense admiration and hatred of others.
3. Have an unstable self-image or be unsure of his or her own identity.
4. Act impulsively in ways that are self-damaging, such as extravagant spending, frequent and unprotected sex with many partners, substance abuse, binge eating, or reckless driving, self sabotage, self mutilation.
5. Have recurring suicidal thoughts, make repeated suicide attempts, or cause self-injury through mutilation, such as cutting or burning himself or herself.
6. Have frequent emotional overreactions or intense mood swings, including feeling depressed, irritable, or anxious. These mood swings usually only last a few hours at a time. In rare cases, they may last a day or two.
7. Have long-term feelings of emptiness.
8. Have inappropriate, fierce anger or problems controlling anger. The person may often display temper tantrums or get into physical or verbal fights.
9. Have temporary episodes of feeling suspicious of others without reason (paranoia) or losing a sense of reality.
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