borderline personality disorder (BPD)
Common characteristics (if 5 or more apply you may have bpd)
strong efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment intense and unstable interpersonal relationships distorted and unstable sense of self impulsiveness commonly associated with sex, drug abuse, and risk taking recurrent suicidal thoughts, gestures, and behaviors emotional instability, periods of depression, irritability, and anxiety
Feelings of emptiness inappropriate intense anger or lack of anger control transient, stress related paranoid thoughts or severe dissociative symptoms
bpd has been recognised has a diagnosable personality disorder since 1980. There is still little knowledge of bpd and other personality disorders; However, 70-80% of those diagnosed with bpd have experienced physical or sexual abuse or have observed some kind of extreme violence. bpd has been diagnosed twice as much in “women” than in “men”.
my life with bpd
I think I was 8 when I wrote my first suicide note. i read it just a few years ago and i still have it somewhere. I find the note pretty ridiculous funny even, but at …show more content…
i can’t go into detail about this relationship. this was the darkest period of my life, the time my disorder took over my life the most. i thought i would never be able to figure out what was wrong with me. sometimes i would just say to myself “nah all cancers are like this”. While i was living with this person i started taking a few classes at a community college, including psych 201. my class started covering personality disorders; i had heard of borderline personality disorder but, the name was so misleading i never paid further attention. I had strong examples of almost every indicator of BPD. it was the largest wave of relief learning about and understanding MY disorder. That’s it! I could finally put a name to it, I’m not evil I’m just sick, and that’s
Common characteristics (if 5 or more apply you may have bpd)
strong efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment intense and unstable interpersonal relationships distorted and unstable sense of self impulsiveness commonly associated with sex, drug abuse, and risk taking recurrent suicidal thoughts, gestures, and behaviors emotional instability, periods of depression, irritability, and anxiety
Feelings of emptiness inappropriate intense anger or lack of anger control transient, stress related paranoid thoughts or severe dissociative symptoms
bpd has been recognised has a diagnosable personality disorder since 1980. There is still little knowledge of bpd and other personality disorders; However, 70-80% of those diagnosed with bpd have experienced physical or sexual abuse or have observed some kind of extreme violence. bpd has been diagnosed twice as much in “women” than in “men”.
my life with bpd
I think I was 8 when I wrote my first suicide note. i read it just a few years ago and i still have it somewhere. I find the note pretty ridiculous funny even, but at …show more content…
i can’t go into detail about this relationship. this was the darkest period of my life, the time my disorder took over my life the most. i thought i would never be able to figure out what was wrong with me. sometimes i would just say to myself “nah all cancers are like this”. While i was living with this person i started taking a few classes at a community college, including psych 201. my class started covering personality disorders; i had heard of borderline personality disorder but, the name was so misleading i never paid further attention. I had strong examples of almost every indicator of BPD. it was the largest wave of relief learning about and understanding MY disorder. That’s it! I could finally put a name to it, I’m not evil I’m just sick, and that’s