Avatar Posted by needshelp 131 days ago (Question)
Can someone change their moods quickly with only one person in their life to be classified as having Borderline Personality Disorder or does that person's moods generally change when around anyone or everyone?


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Written by Edahn 131 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate Answer: + -

Borderline includes something called "splitting" where individuals will waver between idealizing and devaluing individuals. Those events will be triggered by threats of abandonment. Borderline is also MORE than that, though. It also includes 5 of 9 of the following:

1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. [Not including suicidal or self-injuring behavior covered in Criterion 5]

2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.

3. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.

4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., promiscuous sex, eating disorders, binge eating, substance abuse, reckless driving). [Again, not including suicidal or self-injuring behavior covered in Criterion 5]

5. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, threats or self-injuring behavior such as cutting, interfering with the healing of scars (excoriation) or picking at oneself.

6. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days).

7. Chronic feelings of emptiness, worthlessness.

8. Inappropriate anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).

9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation, delusions or severe dissociative symptoms

Your questions, which was a bit confusing, doesn't provide enough information to give an accurate diagnosis, not to mention most of the people here are not diagnosticians, and diagnoses over the internet are unreliable.

You can look and the symptoms and read about the disorder and see if it fits. Ultimately, you want to be careful about self-diagnosis because it's difficult to accomplish without training and experience. Also, diagnoses can confuse people and make them neglect information that doesn't fit the diagnosis that could still be relevant. Diagnoses aren't everything.

If there is something in your life that you think needs to be addressed, then simply address it without worrying about how it fits into the DSM-IV scheme. If you need guidance, see a therapist or read a book that seems relevant and has good therapeutic techniques.

:)

Written by Clyde 130 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate Answer: + -

Good post. Right on!

You could be just having "issues" with that one person.

Best,

Clyde


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