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Relationships with others are intense and unstable, swinging wildly from love to hate and back again. People with BPD will engage in frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
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BPD patients may also have uncertainties about their identity or self-image. They tend to see things in terms of extremes, either all good or all bad. Such people also typically view themselves as victims of circumstance and take little responsibility for themselves or their problems.
Other symptoms include:
- Frequent displays of inappropriate anger
- Recurrent suicidal gestures such as wrist cutting, overdosing, or self-mutilation
- Feelings of emptiness and boredom
- Intolerance of being alone
- Impulsiveness with money, substance abuse, sexual relationships, binge eating, or shoplifting
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