borderline personality disorder

[ bawr-der-lahyn pur-suh-nal-i-tee dis-awr-der ]

/ ˈbɔr dərˌlaɪn ˌpɜr səˈnæl ɪ ti dɪsˌɔr dər /

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noun Psychiatry.

a personality disorder characterized by instability in many areas, as mood, identity, self-image, and behavior, and often manifested by impulsive actions, suicide attempts, inappropriate anger, or depression. Abbreviation: BPD

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Origin of borderline personality disorder

First recorded in 1975–80

Words nearby borderline personality disorder

borderland, Border Leicester, borderless, border light, borderline, borderline personality disorder, Borders, Borders Region, Border States, border tax, Border terrier

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How to use borderline personality disorder in a sentence

Another symptom of borderline personality disorder is an unclear sense of self, and this is nauseatingly blatant in the posts I see each morning.
My Old Social Media Posts Are Painfully Embarrassing—But I Wish I Hadn’t Deleted So Many of Them|Courtney Cook|July 9, 2021|Time
To this day, the two most stigmatizing diagnoses in psychiatry — borderline personality disorder and schizophrenia — are reserved disproportionately for women and for people of color.
How colonialism and capitalism helped place a stigma on mental illness|Balaji Ravichandran|February 12, 2021|Washington Post
What celebrity has started to talk about his or her eating disorder?
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Genetics alone does not an eating disorder make, generally speaking, and Bulik points out that environment still plays a role.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

The eating disorder field remains divided over the potential efficacy of such measures.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And, especially when it comes to the middle, personality counts.
Why This Liberal Hearts Huckabee|Sally Kohn|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“ADD [Attention Deficit Disorder] is just a euphemistic way of saying, ‘I have limits,’” Brown writes.
Can Self-Help Books Really Make a New You?|Lizzie Crocker|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
However, on reaching Spain, the magic of the Emperor's personality soon restored the vigour and prestige of the French arms.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
If so, it is to be hoped that, wise man as you are, the first attack of this disorder was also your last.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Are you quite sure you have never suffered from this rather common disorder, gentle reader, at least, if you be of the male sex?
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
It represents an engaging personality, in which vivacity and sensibility are distinctly indicated.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
The key to all our human disorder is organized education, comprehensive and universal.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

British Dictionary definitions for borderline personality disorder

borderline personality disorder

noun

psychiatry a mental condition on the dividing line between a psychiatric disorder and normality characterized by impulsiveness, extreme mood swings, and often aggressiveness

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Medical definitions for borderline personality disorder

borderline personality disorder

[ bôr′dər-līn′ ]

A personality disorder marked by a long-standing pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, behavior, mood, and self-image that can interfere with social or occupational functioning or cause extreme emotional distress.