can you describe a "borderline" personality?

Answer 1

Borderline personality disoreder is about to change it's name to emotional unstable personality disorder. (I think the emotional one is better)

The BPD Diagnostic Criteria
DSM
According to the DSM IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th Edition) ‘A person who suffers from this disorder has labile interpersonal relationships characterised by instability. This pattern of interacting with others has persisted for years and is usually closely related to the person’s self image and early social interactions. The pattern is present in a variety of settings (e.g. not just at work or home) and often is accompanied by a similar lability (fluctuating back and forth, sometimes in a quick manner) in a person’s affect [mood] or feelings. Relationships and the person’s affect may often be characterised as being shallow. A person with this disorder may also exhibit impulsive behaviours and exhibit a majority of the following symptoms:

1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment

2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation

3. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self

4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)

5. Recurrent suicidal behaviour, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behaviour

6. 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)

7. Chronic feelings of emptiness

8. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)

9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms

Anyone with six or more of the above traits and symptoms may be diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. However, the traits must be long-standing (pervasive) and there must be no better explanation for them (for example a physical illness, another mental illness or substance misuse).

I have got borderline personality disorder, I got the information above from bpd world as it explains it better than I can.

I have put the link in for BPD World.

I hope this helps. :-)

no is it not borderline schizophrenic.
They used to think it was someone on the border of psychosis but that was back in the days they didn't understand the disorder.

Answer 2

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental illness characterized by pervasive instability in moods, interpersonal relationships, self-image, and behavior. This instability often disrupts family and work life, long-term planning, and the individual's sense of self-identity. Originally thought to be at the "borderline" of psychosis, people with BPD suffer from a disorder of emotion regulation. While less well known than schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness), BPD is more common, affecting 2 percent of adults, mostly young women.1 There is a high rate of self-injury without suicide intent, as well as a significant rate of suicide attempts and completed suicide in severe cases.2,3 Patients often need extensive mental health services, and account for 20 percent of psychiatric hospitalizations.4 Yet, with help, many improve over time and are eventually able to lead productive lives.

Answer 3

I think borderline is short for borderline schizophrenic. They have some of the schizo personality things but the can be normal most of the time.

Answer 4

well i have it hating self partner anger crying depression panic attacks anxiety

Answer 5

There is a very useful article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

. . . possibly a Highland Terrier . . .