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Some of the major disorders discussed and explained.

BPD Criteria Explained
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depression/mania
Mental Disorders


BPD Criteria 6 - The Criteria Explained a Little More Clearly

(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).

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Everyone has all these traits to a certain extent. Especially teenagers. These traits must be long-standing (lasting years) and persistent. And they must be intense.

In BPD, there is Dysphoric Mania and Dyphoric Depression
-(dysphoric means an emotional state characterized by anxiety, depression, or unease.)

Dysphoric Mania

"prominent depressive symptoms superimposed on manic psychosis (visions, auditory)."

  • crying
  • curtailed sleep
  • racing thoughts
  • grandiosity
  • psychomotor restlessness
  • suicidal ideation
  • persecutory delusions
  • auditory hallucinations
  • indecisiveness
  • confusion


Dysphoric Depression

Basically, this means that characteristics of hypomania or overactivity occur during a depression that in general has the patient sluggish or listless

  • irritability
  • pressured speech against a background of retardation
  • extreme fatigue
  • guilty ruminations
  • free-floating anxiety
  • panic attacks
  • intractable insomnia
  • increased libido
  • histrionic appearance with expressions of depressive suffering


Another condition recently included in the dysphoria spectrum is PMDD - Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder. It is characterized by severe monthly mood swings along with other common symptoms of PMS. The mood swings can include irritability to rage to homicidal feelings, and severe depression to hopelessness to suicidal thoughts and urges. PMDD is a very serious condition and should be treated by a doctor.

There is also emotional instability with marked and frequent shifts to an empty lonely depression or to irritability and anxiety.