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 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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