Article 3: Borderline Personality Disorder - A Clinical Perspective

People with BPD often have an unstable sense of who they are. That is, their self-image or sense of self often rapidly changes. They typically view themselves as evil or bad, and sometimes they may feel as if they don't exist at all. This unstable self-image can lead to frequent changes in jobs, friendships, goals, values and gender identity.

Relationships are usually in turmoil. People with BPD often experience a love-hate relationship with others. They may idealize someone one moment and then abruptly and dramatically shift to fury and hate over perceived slights or simple misunderstandings. In the eyes of a person with BPD, someone is either good or evil. And that same person may be good one day and evil the next.

View this 20 minute video interview with Dr. Miguel Lewis and read clinical overviews from Mayo Clinic, The National Institute of Health, Harvard, and WebMd.

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