Borderline_Personality_Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder What is Borderline Personality Disorder' Personality disorders affect about 10% of the general population. This group of mental disorders is defined by maladaptive personality characteristics that have a consistent and serious effect on work and interpersonal relationships. DSM-IV defines ten categories of personality disorder. Of these, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is the most frequent in clinical practice. BPD is also one of the most difficult and troubling problems in all of psychiatry. The term "borderline" is a misnomer. These patients were first described sixty years ago by psychoanalysts who noted they did poorly in treatment, and therefore theorized that this is a form of pathology lying on the border between psychosis and neurosis. Although we no longer believe that patients with BPD have an underlying psychosis, the name "borderline" has stuck. A much more descriptive label would be "emotionally unstable: personality disorder." The central feature of BPD is instability, affecting patients in many sectors of their lives. Thus, borderline patients show a wide range of impulsive behaviors, particularly those that are self destructive. They are highly unstable emotionally, and develop wide mood swings in response to stressful events. Finally, BPD may be complicated by brief psychotic episodes. Most often, borderline patients present to psychiatrists with repetitive suicidal attempts. We often see these patients in the emergency room, coming in with an overdose or a borderline, patients, personality, disorder, bpd, studies, serotonin, one, intense, instability, higher, become, wide, unstable, suicidal, research, recurrent, rates, quickly, present, physical, people, pattern, levels, least, interpersonal relationships, impulsive, frequent, form, few, factors, disorders, difficulty, anger, affect, abuse, about, abnormalities, years, wrist, work, words, with, people, who, noted, while, california, viewed, victims, of, verbal, up