Borderline Personality Disorder

A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or mare) of the diagnostic criteria.

At least five of the following:

  1. A pattern of intense and unstable interpersonal relationships
  2. Identity disturbance or problems with sense of self
  3. Impulsivity that is potentially self-damaging
  4. Recurrent suicidal or parasuicidal behavior
  5. Affective instability
  6. Chronic feelings of emptiness
  7. Inappropriate intense or uncontrollable anger
  8. Transient stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms

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American Psychiatric Association (1994). Diagnostic and Statistical Manuual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association Press.