Borderline Personality

Question 1

DSM criteria

Answer 1

Pervasive pattern of instability of personal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by 5 or more of the following:

• avoid real or imagined abandonment
• unstable and intense interpersonal relationships
• impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging
• recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures or threats or self-harm
• instability of mood
• chronic feelings of emptiness
• inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger
• transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms

Question 2

Diagnostic features

Answer 2

begins by early adulthood and is present in a variety of contexts

Question 3

Gender

Answer 3

predominantly in females

Question 4

cautions

Answer 4

many of the criteria describe adolescents in a nut shell, do not diagnosis pre 18 for the reason