BPD Flashcards
DSM-5 criteria
How many symptoms do you need and how many are there?
You need to meet at least 5 of the 9 criteria
What’s the pneumonic for BPD criteria?
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What is criteria 1
Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
What is criteria 2
A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships alternating between extremes of idealisation and devaluation.
What is criteria 3
Markedly and persistently unstable self-image and sense of self.
What is criteria 4
Impulsivity in areas that are self-damaging (e.g. sexual behaviour, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating).
What is criteria 5
Recurrent suicidal behaviour, gestures or threats, or self-mutilating behaviour.
What is criteria 6
Affective instability due to marked reactivity of mood (intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety) usually only lasting a few hours.
What is criteria 7
Chronic feelings of emptiness.
What is criteria 8
Inappropriate and intense anger or difficulty controlling anger, alongside frequent anger outbursts.
What is criteria 9
Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms.
What personality Disorder cluster does it come under?
B. Dramatic/Erratic
Definition of BPD
A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affect, alongside marked impulsivity.
