This video answers the question: Can I identify some of the beliefs and thoughts that drive or are associated with borderline personality disorder?

This question about borderline personality behaviors is getting at is this idea that when people behave in a certain way, to some extent that is driven by or associated with beliefs and thoughts. This is actually a core principle that we see in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Beliefs combined with stress leads to thoughts and thoughts lead to behaviors.

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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