🌿Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a chronic mental health disorder marked by:

People with BPD often struggle with fears of abandonment, intense mood swings, and difficulty managing emotions and impulses.

Common Symptoms:

As per DSM-5 criteria, at least 5 of the following should be present:

Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
Unstable and intense interpersonal relationships (idealizing and then devaluing others)
Identity disturbance — unstable self-image or sense of self
Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (spending, sex, substance use, reckless driving, binge eating)
Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, threats, or self-harm
Affective instability due to marked reactivity of mood (intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety)
Chronic feelings of emptiness
Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger
Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms

Causes & Risk Factors:

Genetic predisposition
Childhood trauma, especially emotional, physical, or sexual abuse
Neglect or unstable family environment
Neurobiological factors: abnormalities in brain areas regulating emotions (amygdala, prefrontal cortex)