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Panel: DSM-IV criteria for borderline personality disorder" Affective criteria Inappropriate intense anger or difficulty controlling anger- eg, frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights Chronic feelings of emptiness Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood- eg, intense episodic dysphoria, imitability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days Cognitive criteria Transient stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms Identity disturbance: striking and persistent unstable self- image or sense of self Behavioural criteria (forms of impulsivity) Recurrent suicidal behaviour, gestures, or threats, or self- mutilating behaviour Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self- damaging that do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behaviour Interpersonal criteria Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment that do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behaviour A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterised by alternating between extremes of idealisation and devaluation "Five of nine criteria needed to diagnose borderline personality disorder problem. The first is a profound fear of abandonment, which tends to manifest itself in desperate efforts to avoid being left alone—eg, calling people on the phone repeatedly or physically clinging to them. The second is a tumultuous quality to close relationships, which are marked by frequent arguments, repeated breakups, and reliance on a series of maladaptive strategies that can both anger and frighten others—eg highly emotional or unpredictable responses.

          Panel: DSM-IV criteria for borderline personality disorder"
Affective criteria
Inappropriate intense anger or difficulty controlling anger-
eg, frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent
physical fights
Chronic feelings of emptiness
Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood-
eg, intense episodic dysphoria, imitability, or anxiety usually
lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days
Cognitive criteria
Transient stress-related paranoid ideation or severe
dissociative symptoms
Identity disturbance: striking and persistent unstable self-
image or sense of self
Behavioural criteria (forms of impulsivity)
Recurrent suicidal behaviour, gestures, or threats, or self-
mutilating behaviour
Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-
damaging that do not include suicidal or self-mutilating
behaviour
Interpersonal criteria
Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment that
do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behaviour
A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal
relationships characterised by alternating between
extremes of idealisation and devaluation
"Five of nine criteria needed to diagnose borderline personality disorder
problem. The first is a profound fear of abandonment,
which tends to manifest itself in desperate efforts to avoid
being left alone—eg, calling people on the phone
repeatedly or physically clinging to them. The second is a
tumultuous quality to close relationships, which are
marked by frequent arguments, repeated breakups, and
reliance on a series of maladaptive strategies that can both
anger and frighten others—eg highly emotional or
unpredictable responses.

Panel: DSM-IV criteria for borderline personality disorder"
Affective criteria
Inappropriate intense anger or difficulty controlling anger-
eg, frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent
physical fights
Chronic feelings of emptiness
Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood-
eg, intense episodic dysphoria, imitability, or anxiety usually
lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days
Cognitive criteria
Transient stress-related paranoid ideation or severe
dissociative symptoms
Identity disturbance: striking and persistent unstable self-
image or sense of self
Behavioural criteria (forms of impulsivity)
Recurrent suicidal behaviour, gestures, or threats, or self-
mutilating behaviour
Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-
damaging that do not include suicidal or self-mutilating
behaviour
Interpersonal criteria
Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment that
do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behaviour
A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal
relationships characterised by alternating between
extremes of idealisation and devaluation
"Five of nine criteria needed to diagnose borderline personality disorder
problem. The first is a profound fear of abandonment,
which tends to manifest itself in desperate efforts to avoid
being left alone—eg, calling people on the phone
repeatedly or physically clinging to them. The second is a
tumultuous quality to close relationships, which are
marked by frequent arguments, repeated breakups, and
reliance on a series of maladaptive strategies that can both
anger and frighten others—eg highly emotional or
unpredictable responses.

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