Borderline Personality Disorder

Front 1

How many diagnostic criteria are needed for Borderline?

Back 1

One: it has 9 items

Front 2

A pervasive pattern of instability of _________ _________(1), self-image, and ___(2), and marked _______(3), beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of _______(4), as indicated by ____(5) (or move) of the following:
(cont. next slide).

Back 2

(1) Interpersonal relationships
(2) Affects
(3) Impulsivity
(4) Contexts
(5) five

Front 3

What are the nine items BPD?

Back 3

1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. (Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.)

2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.

3. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.

4. 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 self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.)

5. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior.

6. 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).

7. Chronic feelings of emptiness.

8. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).

9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms.