Borderline personality disorder

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a long-term mental illness. It is a type of cluster B personality disorder. People diagnosed with it are often very impulsive, and generally have low self-esteem. Moods often change quickly. For these reasons, these people often have trouble keeping a stable relationship. Frequently, people with BPD also suffer from other conditions, such as clinical depression or they show self-harming behavior. Treating people with BPD is difficult, and is usually done using a combination of therapy and drugs.^[3]

C.H.Huges used the term "Borderland", to describe a number of conditions bordering mental health issues. Adolf Stern described of some of the symptoms in 1938, and called them "border line group".^[4] People showed both conditions related to psychosis, and related to neurosis, so the term was thought fitting, at the time.

1. ↑ James F. Masterson: Search For The Real Self. Unmasking The Personality Disorders Of Our Age, Chapter 12: The Creative Solution: Sartre, Munch, and Wolfe, S. 208–230, Simon and Schuster, New York 1988, ISBN 1451668910, pp 212-213.
2. ↑ Tove Aarkrog: Edvard Munch: the life of a person with borderline personality as seen through his art, Lundbeck Pharma A/S, Denmark 1990, ISBN 8798352415.
3. ↑ "State-Funded Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Centers". DrugAbuse.com. Archived from the original on 2021-02-04. Retrieved 2020-11-16. {{cite web}}: More than one of |archivedate= and |archive-date= specified (help); More than one of |archiveurl= and |archive-url= specified (help)
4. ↑ Stern, A. (1938). "Borderline group of neuroses". The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 7: 467–489. doi:10.1080/21674086.1938.11925367.