Category:Characters with Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental illness marked by unstable moods, behavior, and relationships.

Most people who have BPD suffer from: To be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, a person must show an enduring pattern of behavior that includes at least five of the following symptoms:
 * Problems with regulating emotions and thoughts
 * Impulsive and reckless behavior
 * Unstable relationships with other people.
 * Extreme reactions—including panic, depression, rage, or frantic actions—to abandonment, whether real or perceived
 * A pattern of intense and stormy relationships with family, friends, and loved ones, often veering from extreme closeness and love (idealization) to extreme dislike or anger (devaluation)
 * Distorted and unstable self-image or sense of self, which can result in sudden changes in feelings, opinions, values, or plans and goals for the future (such as school or career choices)
 * Impulsive and often dangerous behaviors, such as spending sprees, unsafe sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, and binge eating
 * Recurring suicidal behaviors or threats or self-harming behavior, such as cutting
 * Intense and highly changeable moods, with each episode lasting from a few hours to a few days
 * Chronic feelings of emptiness and/or boredom
 * Inappropriate, intense anger or problems controlling anger
 * Having stress-related paranoid thoughts or severe dissociative symptoms, such as feeling cut off from oneself, observing oneself from outside the body, or losing touch with reality.