BPD Criteria #1 - avoiding abandonment

BPD Criteria # 1
1. frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.

Borderline Personality Disorder is quite often diagnosed instead of or along with Biploar II.

Criteria:

1. frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.

2. a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation

3. identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self

4. impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating). Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.

5. recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior

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)

7. chronic feelings of emptiness

8. inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)

9. transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms

View my first Borderline Video from February

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBgrifzpjik

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[ravenluxe]

hi- thanks for taking the time to make these videos. This was my first one and I will watch through to the last one. Everything you described here, happens to me as well. when I do feel abandoned I feel the need to disattach and (in my relationship) I feel the need/want to do something reckless, and I don't know why? I have been having these feelings really badly lately. and I am running out of ways to cope. thanks again.

[thecrackwalker]

@ravenluxe Thanks for the kind words. have you investigated DBT? it really is a great coping dealio

[kody9333]

I was diagnosed last year with bpd and avoidance disorder and sever major depression, I think I fit all of it, I also struggle with physical disabilities which makes me angry and then more depressed.

Thanks for you videos, you can understand what goes on in my crazy head.

Cheryl

[thecrackwalker]

@kody9333 Hi there, yes you seem to have the same as me with the bpd/avpd combo.. deadly. I hope you seek help.. it really is good to get therapy.!!

[TaTiska]

I think my mother might be borderline, her life is always one extreme to the next, she can't even sit in a quiet room by herself, she always needs drama, and if she can't get that she drinks. Can you give me any advice? I think she's too stubborn to willingly commit herself but it hurts everyone to see her go through life the way she does.

[thecrackwalker]

How old are you? When a person is in the state your mother is in is to try to help her to get help. later on you can learn out to treat her - the major important thing is to make her see she needs help. Get your whole family to help - ever watched the show "Intervention" well in this case maybe it's time, huh?

good luck and stay in touch

[dharmabeats2]

thank you very much for making these. while i take no joy in your suffering it's strangely comforting to hear my own issues vocalized by someone else. the best of luck to you.

[borderlinebrain1]

Hi, ive just watched your 9 bpd criteria videos, you did a great job in explaining them, thankyou so much!

I will be watching your other videos with interest!

thankyou sooooooo much!

[evilsneasel]

you explained this perfectly, especially about feeling paranoid and using distance as self-protection. thank you

[thecrackwalker]

I stopped seeing my therapist when I thought my moving was imminent, but I have recently returned to him.

No I have never felt abandonned by my therapist. he is very careful not to upset me. He is a briiliant man. He knows the BPD shit inside out.