What Are the Signs & Symptoms of Borderline Personality?

November 4, 2019

Dr. Srikanth Reddy

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If you are worried that you or a loved one may have a borderline personality disorder (BPD), it’s essential to be informed about the illness and its symptoms. While some of the symptoms of BPD are not simply identified, others are associated with observable behaviors.

A personality disorder is a pattern of feelings and behaviors that seem suitable and justified to the person experiencing them, even though these feelings and behaviors reason a lot of problems in that person’s life.

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a personality disorder that typically includes the following symptoms:

• Highly impulsive behaviors
• A history of unstable relationships
• Inappropriate or extreme emotional reactions

Intense mood swings, impulsive behaviors, and extreme reactions can make it not easy for people with a borderline personality disorder to total schooling, maintain stable jobs and have long-lasting, healthy relationships.

Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline personality disorder symptoms vary from person to person and women are more likely to have this disorder than men. Common symptoms of the disorder include the following:

• Hostility
• Unstable career plans, goals and aspirations
• Difficulty feeling empathy for others
• A history of unstable relationships that can change drastically from intense love and idealization to intense hate
• A persistent fear of abandonment and rejection, including extreme emotional reactions to real and even perceived abandonment
• Intense, highly changeable moods that can last for several days or for just a few hours
• Strong feelings of anxiety, worry, and depression
• Impulsive, risky, self-destructive and dangerous behaviors, including reckless driving, drug or alcohol abuse and having unsafe sex

Borderline Personality Disorder and Suicidality

Around 80 percent of people with a borderline personality disorder display suicidal behaviors, including suicide attempts, cutting themselves, burning themselves, and other self-destructive acts. It is estimated that between 4 and 9 percent of people with BPD will die by suicide.

Help for Borderline Personality Disorder

Living with a borderline personality disorder, or being in a relationship with someone who has BPD, can be stressful. It can be very hard to acknowledge and accept the reality of BPD, but treatment may help.