Emotionally-Unstable-Personality-Disorder Or BPD

In the USA its called BPD Borderline Personality Disorder

Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder Symptoms

What are the most common emotionally unstable personality disorder symptoms?

The main feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a significant pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotions. People with borderline personality disorder can be very impulsive and may demonstrate self-injurious behaviours (e.g., risky sexual behaviours, cutting, or suicide attempts).

Borderline personality disorder occurs in most people by early adulthood (early 20s). A person with this condition will have experienced an unstable pattern of interacting with others for years. This pattern of behaviour is usually closely related to the person’s self-image and early social interactions with friends and family. The behaviour pattern is present in a variety of settings (e.g., not just at work or home) and often is accompanied by a similar lability (fluctuating back and forth, sometimes in a quick manner) of a person’s emotions and feelings.

People with borderline personality disorder are usually more sensitive than most people to environmental circumstances. The perception of impending separation or rejection, or the loss of external structure, can lead to profound changes in self-image, affect, cognition, and behaviour.

They experience intense abandonment fears and inappropriate anger, even when faced with a realistic time-limited separation or when there are unavoidable changes in plans. For instance, a person with this condition may experience sudden despair in reaction to a clinician’s announcing the end of the hour; or panic and fury when someone important to them is just a few minutes late or must cancel an appointment. They may believe that this “abandonment” implies that they are a “bad person.” These abandonment fears are related to an intolerance of being alone and a need to have other people with them. Relationships and the person’s emotions may sometimes be seen by others or characterized as being shallow.

BPD affects a person’s mood and how they interact with others. Emotionally unstable personality disorder symptoms vary considerably between different patients, but the symptoms roughly fall into four distinct areas:

• Disturbed patterns of thought

• Emotional instability

• Impulsive behaviour

• Intense and unstable interpersonal relationships

There are different levels of disturbed thought patterns seen in patients suffering from borderline personality disorder. In mild cases, patients often believe that they are a bad person, or they might feel invisible or “disconnected” to the outside world. Other patients experience short episodes of abnormal thoughts such as hearing voices in their head. In the most severe of cases, patients will experience prolonged hallucinations, paranoia, voices in their head and other psychotic episodes.
Emotional instability in patients with a borderline personality disorder will manifest itself as bouts of intense negative emotions such as terror, fear, sorrow, rage, emptiness and loneliness. People with borderline personality disorder often suffer from extreme and unpredictable mood swings that occur for no apparent reason.
It is very common for patients with a borderline personality disorder to self harm or engage in potentially harmful activities. Self harming can sometimes lead to suicidal attempts in the most severe of cases. There is also a tendency for patients with borderline personality disorders to indulge in impulsive behavior such as binge drinking, gambling, and drug abuse.
Unstable relationships are a common feature in those who have an emotionally unstable personality disorder. Patients either fear abandonment, which causes intense anxiety or anger, or they feel smothered by interpersonal relationships and behave in such a fashion as to reject people. Emotional relationships formed by people with borderline personality disorders can often be defined as love/hate relationships and can be extremely unstable as a result.

 

Symptoms of people with emotionally unstable personality disorders often show similar patterns to those suffering from psychological trauma or acute mental illness and in order to differentiate between them, it is important that symptoms are assessed over a reasonable period of time.
Borderline personality disorder is a serious mental health illness. At least 60% of patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder will self harm and show suicidal tendencies, and of those, 10% will be successful.
With the correct diagnosis and treatment, around half of all those diagnosed with emotionally unstable personality disorder will recover completely and most of those people will show no more symptoms for at least four years, although a continual assessment and treatment is recommended to prevent a recurrence of symptoms.

Here are some helpful videos explaining the condition

How to Spot the 9 Traits of Borderline Personality Disorder


These Are the Causes of Borderline Personality Disorder

Relationships with someone with BPD part1

Relationships with someone with BPD
part2