This video answers the question: What are the signs of a mother with borderline personality traits in the context of a mother daughter relationship or a mother-in-law daughter-in-law relationship?

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a Cluster B personality disorder. It is in the same cluster is antisocial, narcissistic, and histrionic personality disorders. Someone can have borderline personality traits or features without necessarily having a diagnosis of BPD.

BPD has nine symptom criteria:
1. frantic efforts to avoid abandonment
2. unstable relationship pattern
3. identity disturbance
4. impulsivity in two areas that are potentially self-damaging
5. suicidal behavior
6. affective instability
7. chronic feelings of emptiness
8. inappropriate or intense anger or difficulty controlling anger
9. paranoid ideation or severe dissociation

Lazarus, S. A., Beeney, J. E., Howard, K. P., Strunk, D. R., Pilkonis, P. A., & Cheavens, J. S. (2019). Characterization of relationship instability in women with borderline personality disorder: A social network analysis. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. https://doi-org.mylibrary.wilmu.edu/1...

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