Borderline personality disorder (redirected from Border line personality)

bor·der·line personality disorder (bôrdr-ln)

n.

A personality disorder marked by a long-standing pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, behavior, mood, and self-image that can interfere with social or occupational functioning or cause extreme emotional distress.

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Borderline personality disorder (BPD)

A pattern of behavior characterized by impulsive acts, intense but chaotic relationships with others, identity problems, and emotional instability.

Mentioned in: Self-Mutilation

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borderline personality disorder Psychiatry A disorder of adult onset, which is characterized by instable interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affect, impulsivity in various contexts, and fluctuations in intense moods

Borderline Personality Disorder

1. Frantic efforts to prevent real or imagined abandonment
2. A pattern of intense and unstable interpersonal relationships swinging between extremes of idealization and devaluation
3. Unstable self-image
4. Impulsivity in 2+ areas & self-destructive potential, eg binge eating, driving, gambling, sexual relations, substance abuse
5. Recurring suicidal or self-mutilating gestures or behaviors
6. Marked lability of moods and affect
7. Chronic feeling of 'emptiness'
8. Inappropriate anger and inability to control anger
9. Transient stress-related paranoid ideation or dissociative symptoms