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Rachel Pool Robins gave a candid, in depth interview today about her journey through and out of Borderline Personality Disorder.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder? According to the DSM, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR), to be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, a person must show an enduring pattern of behavior that includes at least five of the following symptoms:
- Extreme reactions—including panic, depression, rage, or frantic actions—to abandonment, whether real or perceived
- A pattern of intense and stormy relationships with family, friends, and loved ones, often veering from extreme closeness and love (idealization) to extreme dislike or anger (devaluation)
- Distorted and unstable self-image or sense of self, which can result in sudden changes in feelings, opinions, values, or plans and goals for the future (such as school or career choices)
- Impulsive and often dangerous behaviors, such as spending sprees, unsafe sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, and binge eating
- Recurring suicidal behaviors or threats or self-harming behavior, such as cutting
- Intense and highly changeable moods, with each episode lasting from a few hours to a few days
- Chronic feelings of emptiness and/or boredom
- Inappropriate, intense anger or problems controlling anger
- Having stress-related paranoid thoughts or severe dissociative symptoms, such as feeling cut off from oneself, observing oneself from outside the body, or losing touch with reality.
Read more at: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/borderline-personality-disorder/index.shtml
Rachel is creating training to help those afflicted with B.P.D to learn the skills necessary to evolve past the disorder. If you’d like to talk with her more about your situation, she can be reached here:
dreadpiraterobins@msn.com
https://www.facebook.com/rachel.robins
Check out the follow up interview with her husband on what it’s like being married to a borderline.
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