what is borderline personality?

Question

just curious

Answer 1

A person with a borderline personality disorder often experiences a repetitive pattern of disorganization and instability in self-image, mood, behavior and close personal relationships. This can cause significant distress or impairment in friendships and 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 breakup of a romantic relationship or the death of a parent.

Symptoms

Relationships with others are intense but stormy and unstable with marked shifts of feelings and difficulties in maintaining intimate, close connections. 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 and impulsive behavior which might include excessive spending, promiscuity, gambling, drug or alcohol abuse, shoplifting, overeating or physically self-damaging actions such as suicide gestures. The person may show inappropriate and intense anger or rage with temper tantrums, constant brooding and resentment, feelings of deprivation, and a loss of control or fear of loss of control over angry feelings. There are also identity disturbances with confusion and uncertainty about self-identity, sexuality, life goals and values, career choices, friendships. There is a deep-seated feeling that one is flawed, defective, damaged or bad in some way, with a tendency to go to extremes in thinking, feeling or behavior. Under extreme stress or in severe cases there can be brief psychotic episodes with loss of contact with reality or bizarre behavior or symptoms. Even in less severe instances, there is often significant disruption of relationships and work performance. The depression which accompanies this disorder can cause much suffering and can lead to serious suicide attempts.

Answer 2

What is borderline personality disorder?
Borderline personality disorder is a mental health condition that causes unstable emotions, impulsiveness, relationship problems, and an unstable self-image. People with the disorder often behave self-destructively, have problems managing anger, and have an intense fear of being rejected and left alone (abandoned). They often also struggle with other conditions such as depression, eating disorders, or substance abuse problems.

Signs of the disorder usually first appear in childhood, but problems often don't develop until early adulthood. Treatment can be difficult. Setbacks are common, and recovery from troubling emotional and behavioral symptoms can take years. However, treatment may be more effective than was previously thought, and even people with severe symptoms usually improve over time

Answer 3

Borderline Personality Disorder is a lot like bipolar disorder except you cannot treat it with medication. I don't know what the exact statistic is, but usually some kind of trauma occurs in childhood or early teen years. This affects a person so much they start displaying anti-social behaviors such as cutting, anything to hurt themselves, lying, drugs, and many more. It's almost like someone is being rebellious, but they can't control it and don't know why they are doing it. The most extreme one with borderline does is multiple attempts at suicide. Usually until they get some kind of help or they succeed. It is a pretty nasty mental illness.

Answer 4

Borderline Personality Disorder is a common mental disorder that is found mostly in females. Symptoms are... unstable emotions, impulsiveness, relationship problems, and an unstable self-image. People with the disorder often behave self-destructively, have problems managing anger, and have an intense fear of being rejected and left alone (abandoned). They often also struggle with other conditions such as depression, eating disorders, or substance abuse problems.

Signs of the disorder usually first appear in childhood, but problems often don't develop until early adulthood. Treatment can be difficult. Setbacks are common, and recovery from troubling emotional and behavioral symptoms can take years. However, treatment may be more effective than was previously thought, and even people with severe symptoms usually improve over time. Features of borderline personality disorder include aggressive behavior, difficulty controlling emotions and impulses, problems with unstable and intense relationships, a low sense of self-worth, and frantic anxiety about being abandoned. Unlike similar behaviors that everyone experiences once in a while, the negative or destructive behaviors of borderline personality disorder are intense and occur repeatedly over a long period of time.

Other characteristics of borderline personality disorder may include long-term feelings of emptiness, frequent and sometimes violent temper tantrums, self-injury (such as cutting or burning yourself), and suicidal behavior
The cause of borderline personality disorder is not completely understood, but the disorder seems to run in families. Often people who develop this disorder had childhood trauma or early loss of or separation from a parent. It is also common for people who get borderline personality disorder to have certain personality traits such as problems coping with anxiety or stress.

An imbalance of chemicals in the brain called neurotransmitters may also play a role in borderline personality disorder.

Answer 5

The borderline is characterized by problems to control their emotions (intensity, instability). It’s like you’re in the back seat of the car and your emotions are driving.
He has sudden changes of mood (up and down) , impulsivity, anger, emptiness, sadness, anxiety, sometimes strange behaviors
He has problems with relationalships.
Also present, black and white thinking, the way to see others in "all good", "all bad", with a status of "victim", unable to accept responsibility
He doesn't know who he is and has an unstable self-image, overall very negative (able to alternate with a very positive image).
He feels the suffering at the point to have self-destructive conduits.
The risk of suicide gives to this disorder a real gravity.
One of the onset factors draws its origins in the early childhood.

Answer 6

it's a personality disorder that can be diagnosed by a psychologist. main characteristics are: someone who is very clingy and emotional; someone who tells you they love you on the day they meet you and act as though their life is over if you don't want to see them; someone who has difficulty discerning reality when it comes to relationships with others; someone who is inclined to mild bouts of paranoia and psychosis; someone who is extremely emotionally labile (sad one second and elated the next, hates you one second and loves you the next).

people who are borderline are kind of difficult to deal with in social situations, so if you've been called "borderline", that's not a good thing.

Answer 7

In psychiatry, borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a personality disorder characterised by extreme 'black and white' thinking, mood swings, emotional reasoning, disrupted relationships and difficulty in functioning in a way society accepts as normal.

Answer 8

This is kind of a tough one. I have it and its hell. I guess the best way to describe it is this: you dont have your own personality, when you are with one person, you act the way that person does, when you are with another person you act like that person does. You dont have your own distinctive personality. It can make a person prone to try suicide. Relationships are very hard to have too. Depression comes into play too. If you want a better idea look on the web.

Answer 9

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is defined within psychiatry and related fields as a disorder characterized primarily by emotional dysregulation, extreme "black and white" thinking (believing that something is one of only two possible things, and ignoring any possible "in-betweens"), and turbulent relationships.

The name originated with the idea that individuals exhibiting this type of behavior were on the "borderline" between neurosis and psychosis. This idea has since fallen out of favor, but the name remains in use, as noted in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; the ICD-10 has an equivalent called Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder, borderline type. There is currently some discussion by the American Psychiatric Association about changing their name for the disorder to Emotional Dysregulatory Disorder, or Emotional Dysregulation Disorder in the next version of the DSM.

Psychiatrists and some other mental health professionals describe Borderline Personality Disorder as a serious mental illness characterized by pervasive instability in mood, interpersonal relationships, self-image, identity, and behavior. This instability often disrupts family and work life, long-term planning, and the individual's sense of self. The majority of those diagnosed with this disorder appear to have been individuals abused or traumatized during childhood.

The DSM-IV-TR, a widely-used reference book for diagnosing mental disorders, defines Borderline Personality Disorder as 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 more) of the following:

frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. (not including suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5)
a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.
identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.
impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating; [not including suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5]).
recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior
affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
chronic feelings of emptiness.
inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).
transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms.

Borderline Personality Disorder is often treated with cognitive therapy, learning emotional regulation skills and sometimes medication.

Answer 10

It depends what you are borderline with. Are you bordeline bio-polar or skitzo? This means you have personality traits if someone with one of these mental illness but yet you are not diagnosed as a full fledged whatever you are bordeline with.