{"id":2429,"date":"2011-05-26T12:21:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T12:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/psybpd\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T20:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:28:58","slug":"psybpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/psybpd\/","title":{"rendered":"Criteria for the Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Borderline personality disorder is a chronic psychiatric disorder characterized by marked impulsivity, instability of mood and interpersonal relationships, and suicidal behaviour that can complicate medical care. Identifying this diagnosis is important for treatment planning.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Criteria for the Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder<\/strong><br \/>\nFive or more of the following criteria must be met:<br \/>\nInterpersonal hypersensitivity<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment<\/li>\n<li>A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships, characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Affective dysregulation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Affective instability because of a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety, usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)<\/li>\n<li>Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)<\/li>\n<li>Chronic feelings of emptiness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Impulsivity<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Impulsive behavior in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending money, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)<\/li>\n<li>Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats or self-mutilating behavior<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other factors<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identity disturbance with markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self<\/li>\n<li>Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Gunderson JG. Clinical practice. Borderline personality disorder. N Engl J Med. 2011 May 26;364(21):2037-42\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/21612472\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Paris J. Borderline personality disorder. CMAJ. 2005 Jun 7;172(12):1579-83\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/15939918\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created: May 26,2011<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1212,1211,16,15,940,123,13,85,1210,1213],"class_list":["post-2429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychiatry","tag-borderline","tag-bpd","tag-criteria","tag-criterios","tag-desordenes","tag-diagnosis","tag-diagnostico","tag-disorder","tag-personalidad","tag-personality"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9332,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions\/9332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}