Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline Trait Characteristics
Borderline disorder belongs to Cluster B: there is extroversion, amplified or unpredictable emotionality.
- Instability of self-image
- Variations in mood, affect, behavior and interpersonal relationships
- Severe self-esteem deficit
- Marked impulsivity in behaviors
- Ambivalence in feelings towards self and others
- Frequent fluctuations: joy-sadness, love-hate, serenity-anger
- Depression and anger alternate
- Drastic changes in the vision of the world and of others.
- Tendency to self-injury, to neutralize psychic pain
* It is called borderline since the mid-twentieth century, because it was believed to be on the borderline between psychosis and neurosis.
* It is the cause of important problems in interpersonal relationships. It becomes more evident in the first adult age and tends to alleviate with the passage of the years.
* It affects mainly women (75%).
* People often think that they have suffered deprivation of care in their childhood and seek constant attention.
* Prevalence varies between 1.6 and 5.9% of the general population.
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Source (in Spanish): Wenceslao Vial, Madurez psicológica y espiritual, Palabra.
