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Some of the major disorders discussed and explained.
BPD Criteria Explained
Criteria #1
Criteria #2
Criteria #3
Criteria #4
Criteria #5
Criteria #6
Criteria #7
Criteria #8
Criteria #9
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BPD Criteria 1 - The Criteria Explained a Little More Clearly
(1). frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.
These symptoms are most acute when I feel isolated and lacking in social support.
I have a background of highly unstable patterns of social relationships. I have developed some intense but stormy attachments. Also, many times my attitudes towards close ones may suddenly shift from idealization (great admiration and love) to devaluation (intense anger and dislike). Paranoid thinking causes this.
This usually means I have formed an immediate attachment to someone and idealize them, but when a slight separation or conflict occurs, I switch to the other extreme and angrily accuse them of not caring for me at all.
I am highly sensitive to rejection, reacting with anger and distress to such mild separations as a vacation, a business trip, or a sudden change in plans.
These fears of abandonment seem to be related to difficulties feeling emotionally connected to the important people in my life. I get to feeling that when they are physically absent, it leaves me feeling lost and many times, worthless.
Suicidal thoughts sometimes occur along with anger at my perceived abandonment and disappointments. This part is usually at its most intense when I am totally alone.
Basically, this means to me, if my friend or relative says they can not come over because they are busy, I become paranoid, I take it as if they don't like me anymore.
This syndrome kicks in when someone calls off an arranged meeting or is late arriving. I begin to worry that they really were just ducking out of a meeting with me because I am not worthy. I think they are avoiding me.
To overcome this feeling of abandoment I take drastic attempts to remain distant as a self-protection. Which leads into the other criteria involved in this list.
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