Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Borderline Personality Disorder
- What It is
- 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
- What it Takes to Classify Someone With it
- five (or more) of the following: (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 (5) recurrent suicidal
behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior (6) affective instability due to a marked
reactivity of mood (7) chronic feelings of emptiness (8) inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty
controlling anger (9) transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms
- Causes
- Environmental factors — such as a history of child abuse or neglect. Also, genetics may be a cause
because studies of twins and families suggest that personality disorders may be inherited. Brain
abnormalities may be a cause because research has shown changes in certain areas of the brain
involved in emotion regulation, impulsivity and aggression.
- Symptoms
- Emotional instability, feelings of worthlessness, insecurity, impulsivity, and impaired social relationships.
- Treatments
- Treatments include talk therapy or, in some cases, medications. Hospitalization helps if symptoms are
severe.
- Cluster
- Individuals with this Cluster B Personality Disorder behave impulsively and their relationships,
self-image, and emotions are unstable.