The DSM criteria for borderline personality disorder are:
- A vervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts
- Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
- A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation
- Identity disturbance
- Impulsivity in at least two areas that re potentially self-damaging
- Recurrent suicidal behaviour, gestures, threats, or self-mutilating behaviour.
- Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood
- Chronic feelings of emptiness
- Inappropriate intense anger or difficulty controlling anger
- Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms
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