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Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder [BPD] also known as Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder [EUPD] is an emotionally unstable mental condition marked by unstable mood states, behaviours and relationships. Most people who have BPD / EUPD exhibit
Problems regulating their emotions and thoughts [‘mood swings’].
Impulsive and reckless behaviour that are potentially self damaging.
Unstable relationships with others with often frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
Often staying in difficult, destructive or violent relationships.
People with BPD / EUPD may also have high rates of depression, anxiety disorders, substance misuse and eating disorders.
Episodic deliberate self-harm and suicidal behaviours that lead to completed suicides in some.
Recent research shows that BPD / EUPD can be treated effectively, and that people with this condition improve over time.
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