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What would be the most common major characteristics of borderline personality disorder?

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Dr. Alan Ali answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Borderline: Impulsive, can't tolerate abandonment, identity disturbance, distorted self-image, repeated self harm, intense anger, chronic feelings of emptiness, dissociation or paranoea for brief periods.

Answered 9/19/2015

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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.

Answered 3/24/2015

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