Borderline Personality
Disorder
A pervasive pattern of
instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked
impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of context,
as indicated by five or more of the following:
(1)
Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
(2)
Unstable and intense relationships,
alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.
(3)
Unstable sense of self, self-image.
(4)
Impulsivity in at least two areas: reckless spending,
sex, driving, binge eating.
(5)
Recurrent suicidal behaviour, gestures,
threats, self-harm.
(6)
Rapid mood changes: intense episodic dysphoria,
irritability, or anxiety lasting usually a few hours and rarely more than a few
days.
(7)
Chronic feelings of emptiness.
(8)
Inappropriate intense anger or difficulty
controlling anger.
(9)
Transient stress-related paranoid ideation or
severe dissociative symptoms.
Life for the borderline can
be painful, confusing, and pure hell. Much of their behaviour is the result of
fear and a means of protecting themselves (defence mechanisms). Borderlines are
often misunderstood and hated by mental health professionals who often refer to
them as manipulative, demanding and difficult to treat. I will try to find the
references of things I have read about mental health professionals in response
to borderlines. At the end of the day, mental health professionals have trained
to work with such people but they have this biased attitude about them. Often
they will get a referral and see a borderline personality disorder (BPD)
diagnosis and immediately decide what this person is like, or worse still they
will refuse to treat them.
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