Deeper into Borderline Personality (BPD)
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
Borderline personality disorder is a very broad category whose essential feature
is instability in a variety of personality areas, including interpersonal
relationships, behavior, mood, and self-image. These areas are not necessarily
related and, indeed, are themselves so broad that people with quite different
problems are likely to be considered for this diagnosis. risk of becoming a "kitchen sink" diagnosis.
In order to increase the validity of the borderline diagnosis, as well as limit its use to a restricted range of people, DSM-4 requires that evidence for at least five of the following problems
be present before the diagnosis can be made:
• Impulsivity or unpredictability in at least two potentially self-damaging
areas, such as sex, gambling, drug or alcohol use, shoplifting, overeating,
and physical self-damage.
• A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships marked
by shifts of attitude, idealization, devaluation, or manipulation of others for
one's own ends.
· Lack of control over anger.
• Identity problems, denoted by uncertainty about such matters as self-image,
gender identity, long-term goals or career choice, friendship patterns,
values, and loyalties.
· Affective instability, which involves marked shifts from normal mood
to depression, irritability, or anxiety.
• Difficulty being alone, including frantic efforts to avoid being alone.
· Physically self-damaging acts, including suicidal gestures, self-mutilation,
recurrent "accidents," or physical fights.
• Chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom.
There is no information about the prevalence of the disorder, nor about
the factors that predispose one to it. However, even with the qualifying requirements
that were indicated above, one senses that it is probably a relatively
widely used diagnosis.
Borderline personality disorder is a very broad category whose essential feature
is instability in a variety of personality areas, including interpersonal
relationships, behavior, mood, and self-image. These areas are not necessarily
related and, indeed, are themselves so broad that people with quite different
problems are likely to be considered for this diagnosis. risk of becoming a "kitchen sink" diagnosis.
In order to increase the validity of the borderline diagnosis, as well as limit its use to a restricted range of people, DSM-4 requires that evidence for at least five of the following problems
be present before the diagnosis can be made:
• Impulsivity or unpredictability in at least two potentially self-damaging
areas, such as sex, gambling, drug or alcohol use, shoplifting, overeating,
and physical self-damage.
• A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships marked
by shifts of attitude, idealization, devaluation, or manipulation of others for
one's own ends.
· Lack of control over anger.
• Identity problems, denoted by uncertainty about such matters as self-image,
gender identity, long-term goals or career choice, friendship patterns,
values, and loyalties.
· Affective instability, which involves marked shifts from normal mood
to depression, irritability, or anxiety.
• Difficulty being alone, including frantic efforts to avoid being alone.
· Physically self-damaging acts, including suicidal gestures, self-mutilation,
recurrent "accidents," or physical fights.
• Chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom.
There is no information about the prevalence of the disorder, nor about
the factors that predispose one to it. However, even with the qualifying requirements
that were indicated above, one senses that it is probably a relatively
widely used diagnosis.
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