Borderline Personality Disorder: How it Affects and What You Can Do

Who suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder?
Borderline Personality Disorder affects both men and women with women being three times more likely to suffer the from the disorder.

What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Borderline personality disorder or BPD is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a long-term disturbance of personality function. It is one of four related diagnoses classified as cluster B ("dramatic-erratic") personality disorders typified by disturbance in impulse control and emotional dysregulation, the others being narcissistic-, histrionic- and antisocial personality disorders.

When was Borderline Personality Disorder discovered?
The term borderline derives from Adolph Stern who in 1938 described the condition as being on the borderline between neurosis and psychosis. Because the term lacks specificity, there is an ongoing debate concerning whether this disorder should be renamed.

Where are people who suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder?
People who suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder can be found worldwide.

Why do people suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder?
Borderline Personality Disorder is heritable and can be passed on from the mother to the child. Since females are three time more likely to suffer from the disorder, there is a chance that a mother could pass it on to her daughter.

How and you remember the features of Borderline Personality Disorder?
You can help by watching the clip below and remembering PRAISE.

P - Paranoid ideas
R - Relationship instability
A - Angry outbursts, affective instability, abandonment fears
I - Impulsive behavior, identity disturbance
S - Suicidal behavior
E - Emptiness