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This 5 page report discusses
the psychiatric disorder known as “Borderline Personality
Disorder.” BPD affects an estimated five million Americans.
Patients with borderline personality disorder make up 20 percent
of psychiatric inpatients and ten percent of psychiatric
outpatients. A diagnosis of having a borderline personality
generally means that the individual experiences a combination of
symptoms such as being unstable in mood, self-image, and personal
relations, chronically angry, often suicidal, with a tendency to
idolize or demonize others. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BWbrdlin.rtf
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borderline personality disorder make up 20 percent of psychiatric inpatients and ten percent of psychiatric outpatients. The diagnosis is five times more common among close relatives of the borderline patient
than in the general population. Grim (2000) also explains: "Borderlines live in a no-mans-land where features of cognitive disorders -- disorders of thinking, such as schizophrenia -- overlap with features
of mood disorders, such as depression. Many health-care workers who deal with borderlines feel their disorder combines the worst features of cognitive and affective disorders. The patients are extremely problematic
to treat -- unpredictable, manipulative, and exasperating. Treatment usually combines both therapy and a medication such as Prozac or Zoloft" (pp. 38). Definitions and Description of the Disorder Because Borderline
Personality Disorder or "BPD" does exist in such a "no-mans-land," it is often misdiagnosed and mistreated which results in greater problems for the individual with BPD and the people who
love him or her. Hooley and Hoffman (1999) found in their research into BPD that a diagnosis of having a borderline personality generally means that the individual experiences a combination
of symptoms such as being unstable in mood, self-image, and personal relations, chronically angry, often suicidal, with a tendency to idolize or demonize others. Most share an impulsive nature but
generally tend to differ in their style of emotional response. Ironically, the disorder itself has had a number of "symptoms" associated with it and caused a certain degree of
disagreement and controversy within the psychiatric and medical community. According to Tyrer (1999), the concept of personality disorder is a useful method of assessing and treating psychological problems, but four
reports published simultaneously in the American Journal of Psychiatry point out the contradictions of calling only one type of problem a borderline personality disorder. Tyrer suggests that it is more
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