Borderline Personality Disorder StatsSurvey

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Classic symptoms most people have	% of members
Chronic feelings of emptiness	100% (6)
Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior	100% (6)
Pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation	83% (6)
Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self	83% (6)
Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)	83% (6)
Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)	83% (6)
Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms	83% (6)

Symptoms where people often differ	% of members
Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment	71% (7)
Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)	67% (6)

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