文档介绍：Borderline Personality Disorder
Raising questions, finding answers
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) idea who they are. Such symptoms are
is a serious mental illness character­ most acute when people with BPD feel
ized by pervasive instability in mood, isolated and lacking in social support,
inter-personal relationships, self- and may result in frantic efforts to
image, and behavior. This instability avoid being alone.
often disrupts family and work life,
long-term planning, and the individ­ People with BPD often have highly
ual’s sense of self-identity. Originally unstable patterns of social relation-
thought to be at the “border-line” of ships. While they can develop intense
psychosis, people with BPD suffer from but stormy attachments, their atti­
a disorder of emotion regulation. While tudes towards family, friends, and
less well known than schizophrenia or loved ones may suddenly shift from
bipolar disorder (manic-depressive ill­ idealization (great admiration and
ness), BPD is mon, affecting love) to devaluation (intense anger
2 percent of adults, mostly young
1 and dislike). Thus, they may form an
women. There is a high rate of self- immediate attachment and idealize the
injury without suicide intent, as well other person, but when a slight sepa­
as a significant rate of suicide ration or conflict occurs, they switch
attempts