borderline personality disorder
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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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 | TimeTo 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 PostThe Richardson family has said that their late sister did not have borderline personality disorder, but was depressed.
Did Antidepressants Contribute to Mary Richardson Kennedy’s Suicide? | Laurence Leamer | July 8, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAccording to the Aptitude Chronology report, she was also diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
Former Student Claims U.S. Naval Academy Had ‘Zero Tolerance’ for Rape Victims | Jesse Ellison | May 4, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTTo some men, women with borderline personality disorder hold an irresistible allure in bed.
British Dictionary definitions for borderline personality disorder
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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