Do You Have a Borderline Personality?

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See also: Do You Have a Schizoid Personality?
And Do You Have an Obsessive-Compulsive Personality?
And Do You Have an Antisocial Personality?
And Do You Have an Avoidant Personality?
And Do You Have a Narcissistic Personality?
And Do You Have a Histrionic Personality?
And Do You Have a Schizotypal Personality?
And Do You Have a Paranoid Personality?

Asperger's syndrome and borderline personality disorder are not especially similar disorders, but some aspies may have traits of a borderline personality anyway.

For each criterion of emotionally unstable personality disorder, decide how well it applies to you personally. If it doesn't apply at all, score it as 0; if it is somewhat applicable, score it as 1; and, if it describes you quite well, score it as a 2. The minimum possible score is 0; the maximum possible score is 20. For an ICD-10 diagnosis of F60.30 emotionally unstable personality disorder, impulsive type, three of the impulsive-type criteria must be met ("A marked tendency to quarrelsome behaviour and to conflict with others, especially when impulsive acts are thwarted or criticized," must be met). For an ICD-10 diagnosis of F60.31 emotionally unstable personality disorder, borderline type, any three impulsive-type criteria must be met; and, in addition, at least two borderline-type criteria must be met. I measured myself as having a score of 8.

For me: 1(1) + 4(2) + 5(2) + 8(2) + 10(1) = 8

none-4pts-one point for numbers two and eight, and two points for number six

Not many on impulsive but I hit on all of them in borderline. I got a 9.

4 on impulsive and 5 on borderline. 9?

6 points for impulsive, 8 for borderline.

I was worried when I scored a 7-8, but i see thats only a Mild


So for my reference, I seem to be moderately avoidant, schizotypal and paranoid. Hmm, how serious is it to score moderate for that many?

My friend has Borderline. It must be hard to live with. Hey, Neant. How do you live with it? I was hoping you could give me some advice that I could pass on to my friend.

This may or may not be true of, or of value to your friend, but there is considerable controversy as to the validity of borderline personality disorder as a diagnostic category separate from other disorders, especially bipolar disorder, dissociative disorders and PTSD (I can dig out references if you want, from a paper I wrote on this). Unfortunately, it's a diagnosis with many pejorative connotations for psychiatrists -- "What do you do with borderlines? You refer them".

By definition, a personality disorder is a "disorder of the personality", and as this implies, resistant to change. On a personal note, I was diagnosed with BPD several years ago, and right now I meet almost none of the criteria. So for whatever my advice may be worth, face the issues and deal with the pain that is behind the behaviour and don't let yourself be defined by a label if it doesn't help or ring true for you.

Yeah, my pedantic nature is showing

Thanks.

0. I am clearly not emotionally unstable

What? Me? I don't have any Borderline traits! I'm perfectly happy and relaxed... OMG MUM JUST CALLED AND I HAVE TO GO FOR DINNER WTF WE'RE HAVING RICE AGAIN?! AARRRRRGH!! !! STUPID STUPID EVIL WORLD... ooh wait, she said we are having apple pie for dessert.... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yummy! WTF IT'S NOT READY YET?!?!?!