Contents:
- Medical Video: How to Test for Borderline Personality Disorder
- What are the signs and symptoms of borderline personality disorder?
- When do I need to see a doctor?
Medical Video: How to Test for Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental illness characterized by feelings, moods and erratic behavior. Patients usually have problems with emotions and thoughts; sometimes, they have careless behavior that causes unstable relationships. Borderline personality disorder generally occurs in adolescence or early adulthood.
What are the signs and symptoms of borderline personality disorder?
It is not easy to distinguish borderline personality disorder symptoms from other mental disorders. But generally, borderline personality disorder can be diagnosed with the following signs and symptoms:
- People with borderline personality disorder usually have a serious fear of neglect or abandonment. They sometimes have extreme reactions, such as panic, depression, anger or excitement if they feel or are completely abandoned.
- They cannot maintain a stable relationship, even with their family, friends or closest people. They often cause problems in the relationship by idealizing someone and then suddenly hating or being angry with that person.
- They quickly change to emotions, values, feelings, goals related to self-identity and self-image. Patients do not respect themselves or feel they are not there.
- Impulsive and sometimes dangerous behaviors, such as gambling, wasting money, unsafe sexual relations, drug abuse, driving carelessly, binge eating or stop sudden success, such as stopping work or positive relationships.
- Repetitive or self-destructive suicidal behavior, such as slashing the arteries, in response to fear of separation or rejection.
- Intense and volatile mood, with each episode lasting from a few hours to several days which can include intense happiness, resentment, shame or anxiety.
- Often feel empty or bored.
- Inappropriate, intense, cynical anger has physical fights
- Having paranoid thoughts related to stress or serious dissociative symptoms, such as feeling separate from oneself, observing oneself from outside the body, or losing contact with reality.
However, the most dangerous sign is suicide and self-harm. About 4-9% of people with borderline personality disorder tend to have suicidal behavior or try to commit suicide. With mental problems, suicide is the most tragic result. Doctors are studying to get treatment that can reduce suicidal behavior from people who suffer from borderline personality disorder.
Self-injury behavior is not as serious as suicide attempts, but also has an influence on the patient's physical and physical health. In certain cases, self-harming behavior can be life-threatening, such as wiping, burning, hitting, sipping the head, grabbing hair and other dangerous actions. Worse, these people do not see this behavior as a dangerous activity, but as a way of expressing pain and punishing themselves.
When do I need to see a doctor?
Immediately visit a doctor once you are aware of the signs and symptoms that interfere with your life and social relationships. You need to talk to your family or friends about getting medical help when you notice signs of BPD on them. If your relationship causes significant stress, you might be able to visit a therapist.
