Borderline Personality Disorder

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Borderline Personality disorder

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe, chronic, disabling, and potentially lethal psychiatric condition. People who suffer with this disorder have extreme and long standing instability in their emotional lives, as well as in their behavior and their self-image. This is a common disorder affecting two percent of the general population. The best evidence indicates that about eleven percent of psychiatric outpatients and nineteen percent of inpatients meet diagnostic criteria for BPD (Kass, et al. 1985).
A person with a borderline personality disorder often experiences a repetitive pattern of disorganization and instability in mood and close personal relationships. This can cause significant distress or impairment in friendship and in 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 break of a romantic relationship or the death of a parent (Corelli).
There are many Symptoms of borderline personality disorder such as unstable interpersonal relationships, frequent display of temper, inappropriate anger, recurrent suicide gestures, feelings of emptiness and boredom, intolerance for bring alone and an impulsiveness in at least two of the following areas: money, substance abuse, sexual relationships, reckless driving, binge eating, and shoplifting (Yahoo Health).
In greater detail someone with BPD would have an intense but stormy relationship with marked shifts of feelings and difficulties in maintaining intimate, close connections with others.
The person may manipulate others and often has difficulty with trusting others. There is also emotional instability with marked and frequent shifts to an empty lonely depression or to irritability and anxiety. There may be unpredictable a...