What Is A Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)?: The onset of BPD symptoms can be triggered by events that others might perceive as normal (also referred to as Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD)) and are characterised by extreme and turbulent emotions, black-and-white thinking, instability and impulsiveness, and fear of abandonment.
This affects how you think, feel and interact with other people and usually surfaces during adolescence and continues into your adult years. One of the most common issues people experience with a borderline personality disorder surfaces as a continuing pattern of intense and unstable relationships.
If you have BPD you are also likely to experience separation anxiety, interpersonal difficulties, unstable or unclear sense of self, suicidal ideation or behaviour, feelings of emptiness, anger issues and dissociation.
There is disagreement over whether BPD is a mental health condition, a personality disorder, or a response to early childhood trauma such as being linked to traumatic events during childhood, such as neglect or abuse.
A borderline personality disorder has a strong genetic component, and environmental factors in your past and present are also key.
