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Warning Signs - Borderline Personality Disorder
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Borderline Personality Disorder- a mental illness characterized by instability in mood, self-image, identity and interpersonal relationships and often accompanied by Suicidality or self-harm.
If you or someone you know are experiencing these symptoms or warning signs seek medical attention:
| • | Recurring suicidal thoughts, repeated suicide attempts, or self-injury through mutilation, such as cutting or burning |
| • | Pattern of difficult relationships alternating between intense admiration and hatred |
| • | Intense fear of abandonment. |
| • | Chronic feelings of emptiness |
| • | Emotional overreactions and intense but brief mood swings, including anger depression, anxiety, irritability |
| • | Emotional overreactions and intense but brief mood swings, including anger depression, anxiety, irritability . |
| • | Unstable self-image |
Source : www.psychcentral.com |
