Symptoms of BPD

Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder. Personality Disorders
are diagnosed by observing patients and identifying
whether or not clusters of symptoms exist in that person.
If several of the identified symptoms exist, the person is
Said to be suffering from that particular personality
disorder.

This is the list of identified symptoms which professionals
look for to diagnose Borderline Personality Disorder*. A
person is said to have BPD if he or she has 5 or more of these:

=> Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment

=> A pattern of intense interpersonal relationships characterized
by alternating between extremes of idealization and
devaluation. This is called "splitting."

=> Identity Disturbance: Markedly and persistently unstable
self-image or sense of self.

=> Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-
damaging. Examples are spending, sex, substance-abuse,
reckless driving, binge eating.

=> Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-
mutilating behavior.

=> Intense episodes of depression, irritability or anxiety usually
lasting a few hours and rarely more than a few days.

=> Chronic feelings of emptiness.

=> Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger.


=> In severe cases, transient, stress-related paranoid
ideation or severe disassociative symptoms.

*This list of symptoms is adapted from the DSM-IV
Diagnostic Criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder.

If your loved one is displaying these symptoms, please
get them competent medical attention immediately.

Just a word about the odd symptom of "splitting." Borderline
Personality Disorder sufferers may one day regard you as
saintly, even perfect. And the very next day, for no reason
you can identify, your loved one considers you a horrible
person, and maybe even a person who is dangerous to him. Go
to http://www.borderlinecentral.com/report1/ for more information

In the next email, we'll talk about the anger and rage symptoms
which seem to be part of many Borderline Personality Disorder
sufferers disease.

Your friend,

David Oliver


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