The main symptoms of borderline personality disorder are:
- Emotional instability;
- Impulsive behaviors;
- Inadequate demonstrations of anger;
- Low self esteem;
- Insecurity;
- Tendency to suicide;
- Difficulty accepting criticism and rules;
- Intolerance of frustrations;
- Fear of abandonment.
The main consequences of borderline personality disorder are seen in the dysfunctional relationships that the person has in the affective, family and professional areas.
THE instability emotions, relationships, self-image and feelings, with much impulsiveness associated, are the symptoms of the borderline patient.
The person tends to have intense, confused, and disorganized relationships. It easily changes your concept about others and your feelings, often devaluing your own previously valued qualities.
Borderline personality disorder may cause chronic feelings of emptiness, rejection and abandonment, regardless of whether it is real or fanciful.
Other striking features of patients with borderline disorder are self-mutilations and the suicidal behaviors accented.
It is known that about 10% of these people can commit suicide due to the psychic suffering accentuated that the disease brings.
The first symptoms of borderline personality disorder usually appear in the adolescence and generally persist throughout life, with women being more affected than men.
However, in most cases, the severity of the disorder decreases with time, which leads the family to assume that symptoms such as rebellion, impulsivity, lack of emotional control, and instability are typical of age.
However, these people are intelligent and talented, but they are boycotted by the disorder, which prevents them from developing.
Borderline personality disorder is a severe mental illness which should be treated, even in milder cases.
The diagnosis is the responsibility of the psychiatrist and the treatment is done with psychotherapy and medications aimed at alleviating the symptoms or treating other associated diseases.
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