9 Clinical Criteria For Borderline Personality Disorder - CLASSIC
Life Coach and Therapist Mark Smith, shares one of his classic videos - his 2nd most watched video ever. In this video Mark outlines the 9 clinical criteria for diagnosing borderline personality disorders as outlined in DSM III in an easy to understand, insightful, accurate manner.
Mark E. Smith, MSW is the Founder and Director of Family Tree Life Coaching and Family Tree Counseling Associates. He has worked as a highly respected therapist and author in the Indianapolis area for 33+ years. He now practices primarily as a Life and Relationship Coach. He offers coaching for individuals, couples, families, family businesses, executive leaders, pastors, and therapists. He has world class coaching expertise in Affair Recovery, Relationship Issues, Narcissistic Abuse Syndrome, Sexual Addiction, Abuse, Trauma, Complex PTSD, Anxiety, Mid-Life Issues, Shame and Abandonment Issues. If you need a safe, courageous, cutting, unique, empathetic, marriage-jolting healer, he is your guy. You can contact Mark Smith at [email protected] and 317-507-8866.
Criteria include:
1. Extreme reactions—including panic, depression, rage, or frantic actions—to abandonment, whether real or perceived (Borderline hating my daughter)
2. 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) (So confusing – ‘I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me’)
3. 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) (Line dancing sex addict to Carmel housewife)
4. Impulsive and often dangerous behaviors, such as spending sprees, unsafe sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, and binge eating ( sexual addiction)
5. Recurring suicidal behaviors or threats or self-harming behavior, such as cutting
6. Intense and highly changeable moods, with each episode lasting from a few hours to a few days (my Mom’s 2 second shifts to rage)
7. Chronic feelings of emptiness and/or boredom (need narcissistic supply)
8. Inappropriate, intense anger or problems controlling anger (Ragers – embarrassing)
9A - Having stress-related paranoid thoughts
9B - Or severe dissociative symptoms, such as feeling cut off from oneself, observing oneself from outside the body, or losing touch with reality
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