BPD
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental disorder that severely impacts a person's ability to manage their emotions. This loss of emotional control can increase impulsivity, affect their self-image, and negatively impact their relationships with others. People with BPD tend to have mood swings or episodes (although they differ a lot from bipolar) they may also struggle to keep friendships and relationships.
BPD terms, BPD types, Diagnostic Criteria
BPD terms
FP / Favorite person - Someone who a borderline relies on heavily for emotional support, seeks attention and validation from, and looks up to or idealizes.
Splitting - A term used with most/all Cluster-B personality disorders. Characterized by a sudden and abrupt shift in opinion/view on a certain thing.
Example: Going from liking a person very much to absolutely despising them within the span of an hour.
Types of BPD
Discouraged BPD
Impulsive BPD
Petulant BPD
Self-destructive BPD
Quiet BPD
Diagnostic Criteria
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, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
1 . Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. (Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.)
- A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.
- Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.
- Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating). (Note: Do not include suicidal or selfmutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.)
- Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior.
- 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).
- Chronic feelings of emptiness.
- Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).
- Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms.