What symptoms does someone with borderline personality disorder have?

Marked instability: Borderline personality disorder is typically diagnosed in late teens or early adulthood. It is characterized by a longstanding pattern of intense but unstable black-and-white relationships with others, along with poor self image; reckless and dangerous impulsivity such as drug abuse and risky sexual behaviors, and persistent problems with mood, including self-distructive behaviors.

Problems: With interpersonal relationships, mood, impulse control, and/or cognition/perception.

Intense Symptoms: The primary features of bpd are unstable interpersonal relationships, affective distress, marked impulsivity, and unstable self-image. Often they are very sensitive to the way others treat them, reacting strongly to perceived criticism. Impulsive behaviors such as alcohol or drug abuse, promiscuous and intense sexuality, gambling and recklessness in general are common. Treatment is a challenge.

Borderline: Intense fear of abandonment, being manipulative, impulsivity, a tendency to think of people and things in all good or all bad terms, self mutilating behaviors, drug and alcohol abuse, sexual impulsivity, a profoundly disturb sense of self, and extreme emotional volatility.