Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder?

Borderline personality disorder greatly affects a person’s behaviour, with intense feelings of insecurity. Some of the symptoms to look out for include:

• Severe fear of being abandoned, which could lead to the person acting out in order to avoid a situation whether it is real or just in their imagination.
• Unstable relationships, the person has intense feelings of love one moment and hate the next.
• A wavering self-image that affects a person’s mood, goals and values
• Behaviour that is impulsive and possibly destructive, such as gambling, drugs, suddenly quitting a good job or spending too much money.
• Threatening to harm themselves or commit suicide
• Negative emotions and anxiety that last for days.
• Feelings of emptiness
• Intense anger or irritability. Losing your temper followed by guilt and shame
• A loss of identity and connection with reality, becoming paranoid.