Borderline Personality Disorder
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Occasional anxiety is a normal part of life. Many people worry about things such as health, money, or family problems. But anxiety disorders involve more than temporary worry or fear. For people with an anxiety disorder, the anxiety does not go away and can get worse over time. The symptoms can interfere with daily activities such as job performance, schoolwork, and relationships.
There are several types of anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, and various phobia-related disorders.
What are the signs and symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder?
Signs or symptoms may include:
- Efforts to avoid real or perceived abandonment, such as plunging headfirst into relationships—or ending them just as quickly.
- A pattern of intense and unstable relationships with family, friends, and loved ones.
- A distorted and unstable self-image or sense of self.
- Impulsive and often dangerous behaviors, such as spending sprees, unsafe sex, substance misuse, reckless driving, and binge eating. However, if these behaviors happen mostly during times of elevated mood or energy, they may be symptoms of a mood disorder and not borderline personality disorder.
- Self-harming behavior, such as cutting.
- Recurring thoughts of suicidal behaviors or threats.
- Intense and highly variable moods, with episodes lasting from a few hours to a few days.
- Chronic feelings of emptiness.
- Inappropriate, intense anger or problems controlling anger.
Feelings of dissociation, such as feeling cut off from oneself, observing oneself from outside one’s body, or feelings of unreality.
Areas of interest
Anxiety Disorder
Occasional anxiety is a normal part of life. Many people worry about things such as health, money, or family problems.
Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar I disorder is defined by manic episodes that last for at least 7 days.
Borderline Personality Disorder
People with borderline personality disorder also tend to view things in extremes.
Dissociative Disorders
The symptoms of a dissociative disorder usually first develop as a response to a traumatic event.
Mood Disorder
It causes severe symptoms that affect how a person feels, thinks, and handles daily activities.
PTSD / TRAUMA
PTSD is a disorder that develops in some people who have experienced a shocking, scary, or dangerous event.