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BPD Traits v Disorder – Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms

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This video will cover the difference between BPD traits and BPD. I think this is important for people to know so they can build knowledge into themselves or their loved ones. There are 9 criteria and you must have 5 or more to qualify for the diagnosis. All 5 of these must be moderate, severe, or extreme in severity. If you only have 4 or less, that’s traits and not the disorder according to the criteria.

Remember, this video is not for you to diagnose yourself. You must go to a mental health professional for that. Understanding symptoms is one thing, but a diagnosis is something else, which can help you seek treatment so you can manage and control these symptoms that are causing you problems. You may get confused as I go through this, and that’s normal, because diagnosis is not cut and dry or an is or isn’t kinda thing. There are many factors that go into a diagnosis and PDs are particularly complicated.

Criteria #
1. How great are your fears of abandonment and do you engage in desperate efforts to avoid this abandonment? Is it mild, moderate, severe or extreme?
2. Do tend to see others as heros or zeros, and does this alternating view cause disruption in your relationships, if so how much – mild, moderate, severe or extreme?
3. How much would you say you don’t know who you are, what you believe in, or what you stand for – mild, moderate, severe or extreme?
4. How severely do you engage in self destructive behavior, like spending sprees, sex, substance cause, binge eating, etc. – mild, moderate, severe or extreme?
5. Do you have reoccurring suicidal gestures, threats, behaviors or self-mutilation? If so, how often and how impactful are they in your life – mild, moderate, severe or extreme?
6. Intense emotional reactions due to instances in your life, such as intense depressive Sx, irritability, and/or anxiety that lasts a few hours only, rarely more than a few days. Is this mild, moderate, severe or extreme?
7. Feeling empty inside, like a hole you can’t fill. Is this feeling mild, moderate, severe or extreme?
8. Intensity of anger is out of proportion to the issue or incident that set you off. Is your anger mild, moderate, severe or extreme and does it occur often?
9. You feel like people are watching you, holding back, preventing you from succeeding, and only want the worst for you? Is this mild, moderate, severe or extreme?






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