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Is it Borderline Personality Disorder?

Posted on Wednesday 28 December 2005

Maybe if you answer yes to five or more of the following questions:

1. Do you fear abandonment(whether real or imagined)?

2. Do you get involved in personal relationships that feel intense but unstable? Do your relationships alternate between extremes of idealization and devaluation?

3. Do you have a persistent unstable self-image or sense of self?

4. Do you engage in potentially self-damaging addictive impulses such as overspending, promiscuous sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, or binge eating?

5. Do you use manipulative suicide threats or gestures, or participate in self-mutilating behavior?

6. Do you have unstable mood episodes(intense crying, racing thoughts, indecisiveness, confusion, guilt, extreme fatigue, panic attacks, increased libidio, irritability, or anxiety) which usually last only a few hours and rarely more than a few days?

7. Do you have chronic feelings of emptiness and lonliness?

8. Do you have inappropriate, intense anger, or difficulty controlling anger?

9. Do you have stress-related paranoia, severe dissociation, or transient behaviors?

A person with a borderline personality disorder often experiences a repetitive pattern of disorganization and instability in self-image, mood, behavior, and close personal relationships. This can cause significant distress or impairment in friendships and work. A person with this disorder can often be bright and intelligent, and appear warm, friendly and competent. They sometimes can maintain this appearance for a number of years until their defense structure crumbles, usually around a stressful situation like the breakup of a romantic relationship or the death of a parent. – Richard J. Corelli, M.D. (more…)

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