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Borderline Personality Disorder: A mental illness with a pattern of ongoing instability in moods, relationships, and self-image.
Symptoms:
- Frantic efforts to avoid being abandoned
- Unstable personal relationships
- Distorted and unstable self-image
- Impulsive behaviors
- Intense depressed mood, irritability or anxiety lasting a few hours to a few days
- Chronic feelings of boredom or emptiness
- Inappropriate, intense or uncontrollable anger
- Feeling detached, unreal, or separate from one's body
- Stress-related paranoid thoughts
- Suicidal and self-harming behavior (e.g., cutting)
For information to help assess for suicidal ideation check the Suicide Assessment page
Resources to learn more:
- Suicide Risk Assessment page
- Maryland 211 under Tools
- NAMI Borderline Personality Disorder Page
- SAMHSA Borderline Personality Disorder Page