Borderline Personality Disorder

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Borderline Personality Disorder
BPD is a personality disorder characterized by
extreme mood swings, emotional reasoning,
disrupted relationships and difficulty in functioning
in a way society accepts as normal.
While a person with depression or bipolar disorder
typically endures the same mood for weeks, a person
with BPD may experience intense bouts of anger,
depression and anxiety that may last only hours,
or at most a day.
People with BPD often have highly unstable patterns
of social relationships.
Psychiatrists describe it as a serious mental illness
characterized by instability in moods, interpersonal
relationships, self-image, and behavior.
These moods disrupts family and work life,
long-term planning, and the individual's sense of
self-identity, which can lead to frequent changes in
long-term goals, career plans, jobs, friendships,
gender identity, and values.
People with BPD exhibit other impulsive behaviors,
such as excessive spending, binge eating and risky
sex. BPD often occurs together with other psychiatric
problems, particularly bipolar disorder, depression,
anxiety disorders, substance abuse, and other
personality disorders.
Such symptoms are most acute when people with
BPD feel isolated and lacking in social support,
and may result in frantic efforts to avoid being alone.

These Patients often need extensive mental health
services, and account for 20 percent of psychiatric
hospitalizations. With help, many improve over
time and are eventually able to lead productive lives.