bor·der·line personality disorder (bôr d r-l n )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. |
Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
A pattern of behavior characterized by impulsive acts, intense but chaotic relationships with others, identity problems, and emotional instability.
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borderline [bor´der-lĭn″]
1. of a phenomenon, straddling the dividing line between two categories.
2. a term used in psychiatry for personality disorders originally viewed as being on the border between psychosis and neurosis. See borderline personality disorder.
borderline personality disorder a personality disorder marked by various features of borderline personality organization, such as instability, impulsiveness, intense or poorly controlled anger, inability to tolerate being alone, and chronic feelings of emptiness. Affected individuals sometimes seem to be on the borderline of psychosis and are highly unstable in mood, behavior, self-image, and affect. None of the features of the condition are constant; behavior is highly unpredictable and such persons seldom achieve their full potential. Their interpersonal relationships are often stormy because of their shifts in attitude and their tendency to idealize, devalue, or manipulate others. Suicidal gestures and self-mutilation sometimes occur with this disorder. The American Psychiatric Association has published Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder, which is printed on their web site at http://www.psych.org.
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
- Frantic efforts to prevent real or imagined abandonment
- A pattern of intense and unstable interpersonal relationships swinging between extremes of idealization and devaluation
- Unstable self-image
- Impulsivity in 2+ areas & self-destructive potential, eg binge eating, driving, gambling, sexual relations, substance abuse
- Recurring suicidal or self-mutilating gestures or behaviors
- Marked lability of moods and affect
- Chronic feeling of 'emptiness'
- Inappropriate anger and inability to control anger
- Transient stress-related paranoid ideation or dissociative symptoms
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