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Borderline personality disorder Symptoms
Borderline personality disorder symptoms are similar to those for which most people seek psychiatric help: depression, mood swings, the use and abuse of drugs and alcohol, obsessions, phobias, feelings of emptiness and loneliness, inability to tolerate being alone, problems about eating. But in addition, Borderline personality disorder symptoms include great difficulties in controlling rage, poor impulse control, falling in and out of love quickly and often, a tendency to idealize other people and then abruptly despise them. People with Borderline personality disorder symptoms are unable to tolerate their emotions which change quickly and are very intense. People with borderline personality symptoms also have a tendency to hurt themselves. In Poisoned Love, I describe many of my borderline personality disorder symptoms, which include a fear of abandonment, splitting, and intense mood swings.
Because of the combination of borderline personality disorder symptoms, relationships with others are intense but stormy and unstable with marked shifts of feelings and difficulties in maintaining intimate, close connections. The person may manipulate others and often has difficulty trusting others. Borderline personality disorder symptoms are characterized by intense emotional mood swings, irrational anger and fear of abandonment. Emotional instability with marked and frequent shifts to an empty lonely depression or to irritability and anxiety are common borderline personality disorder symptoms. Borderline personality disorder symptoms include unpredictable and impulsive behaviors such as promiscuity, excessive spending, gambling, shoplifting, binge eating or drinking, self-mutilation and suicide gestures. Borderline personality disorder symptoms may include inappropriate and intense anger or rage with temper tantrums, constant brooding, and resentment, feelings of deprivation, and a loss of control or fear of loss of control over angry feelings. Borderline personality disorder symptoms also include identity disturbances with confusion and uncertainty about self-identity, sexuality, life goals and values, career choices and friendships. Borderline personality disorder symptoms include a deep seated belief that they are flawed, defective, damaged or bad in some way, with a tendency to go to extremes in thinking and, feeling or behavior. Under extreme stress (real or imagined abandonment) or in severe cases, Borderline personality disorder symptoms can be brief psychotic episodes with loss of contact with reality or bizarre behavior or symptoms. Even in less severe instances, there is often significant disruption of relationships and work performance due to borderline personality disorder symptoms.
In Poisoned Love, I question whether I was psychotic, which is one of the borderline personality disorder symptoms, when I poisoned my ex-lover.
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