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Borderline Personality Disorder is a serious disease which costs thousands of dollars each year and causes havoc in the lives of sufferers. People who suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) experience a wide range of symptoms which mental health professionals have grouped into nine categories. Currently, to be diagnosed with BPD you must show symptoms in at least five of the nine categories. This article will explore those categories.
Sensation seeking behaviors. To count as a symptom of BPD, sensation seeking behaviors that are impulsive must be present in two different types. These are behaviors which trigger adrenaline rushes and intense emotions. Some examples would be: sexual acting out, substance abuse, spending sprees, shoplifting, involvement in extreme sports, or destroying property. They need to be something which endanger the person’s life or well-being.
Self Harm. This is non-suicidal self injury. It can include cutting, burning, breaking bones, or banging parts of the body against hard objects – anything which produces pain. In some cases, these behaviors can lead to an actual suicide attempt as people get used to more and more pain and begin to self harm in more serious ways.
Roller coaster emotions. People with BPD experience extreme mood swings. They may feel on top of the world one moment and plunge into despair the next. These mood swings are intense but usually last only a short time. They often occur in response to seemingly minor triggers.
Explosiveness. Dramatic episodes of anger and rage are frequently experienced by people with BPD. Like with roller coaster emotions, the things that trigger this explosiveness may seem minor. These explosions wreak havoc in relationships and sometimes leave those with BPD even in trouble with the law.
Fears of abandonment. People with BPD often obsess about people they love leaving them. This can cause them to be clingy and dependent, or outrageously jealous. This can cause them to bring about the very thing they fear and end up pushing away the person they care about.
Unclear and unstable self-concept. People who exhibit this symptom may view themselves quite favorably at times but at others exude self-distain. They often don’t know what they want in life and lack clear values and purpose.
Emptiness. Many people with BPD feel painfully empty inside. They may attempt to feel the emptiness with material things but it remains. There is always the feeling of something missing or lost.
Up and down relationships. Seeing others as all good or all bad is common in relationships for those with BPD. This leads to turbulent relationships which are like revolving doors. They are intense and difficult to maintain because of this.
Dissociation. Feeling out of touch with reality is the final symptom of BPD. This feeling of unreallness is common when people with BPD are under a great deal of stress. Sometimes they may temporarily hear vices or suffer from paranoia.
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Goodness!thos3 are so many symptoms for one to go through. It's like living in frustration all your life. There are some disorders when you hear about them they sound very unusual but in actual sense that are real. Dealing with mood swings is a lot of work in itself leave alone all the other symptoms.
It is a serious matter for everyone if some of our friend falls in BPD because it crushes human mind and soul and plus human body in such condition anon must consult a specialist doctor to check up the patient as soon as possible.
These are the clear cut signs and symptoms ob BPD
Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
A pattern of intense and unstable relationships with family, friends, and loved ones, often swinging from extreme closeness and love (idealization) to extreme dislike or anger (devaluation)
Distorted and unstable self-image or sense of self
Impulsive and often dangerous behaviors, such as spending sprees, unsafe sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, and binge eating
Recurring suicidal behaviors or threats or self-harming behavior, such as cutting
Intense and highly changeable moods, with each episode lasting from a few hours to a few days
Chronic feelings of emptiness
Inappropriate, intense anger or problems controlling anger
Having stress-related paranoid thoughts
Having severe dissociative symptoms, such as feeling cut off from oneself, observing oneself from outside the body, or losing touch with realityFrantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
A pattern of intense and unstable relationships with family, friends, and loved ones, often swinging from extreme closeness and love (idealization) to extreme dislike or anger (devaluation)
Distorted and unstable self-image or sense of self
Impulsive and often dangerous behaviors, such as spending sprees, unsafe sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, and binge eating
Recurring suicidal behaviors or threats or self-harming behavior, such as cutting
Intense and highly changeable moods, with each episode lasting from a few hours to a few days
Chronic feelings of emptiness
Inappropriate, intense anger or problems controlling anger
Having stress-related paranoid thoughts
Having severe dissociative symptoms, such as feeling cut off from oneself, observing oneself from outside the body, or losing touch with reality