DSM criteria

Question 1

BPD criteria

Answer 1

Mnemonic:

I RAISED A pAin

- Identity disturbance

- Relationships unstable 
- Abandonment frantically avoided 
- Impulsive 
- Suicidal (gestures, threats, SH, SA)
- Emptiness
- Dissociative symptoms and paranoia (transient, stress-related)

- Affective instability 

- paranoid ideation 
- Anger poorly controlled
- idealization, devaluation - negativisitic: undermines efforts of self and others