Borderline personality disorder

Borderline personality disorder

For a long time, borderline personality disorder (BPD) has been considered a long-lasting diagnosis with poor prediction. Studies to evaluate this assumption about BPD have however produced different results, and it has been seen that symptoms of this disease have a tendency to reduce as a person advances in age. From a study conducted, about 300 individuals who were BPD inpatients, out of eight people, only seven individuals had the expression of the disease symptoms occurring for about four years in a decade. The high degree of expression of BPD could be attributed to the different symptoms of the disease which have varying linear patterns. Studies related to borderline personality disorder were conducted in Germany, and the results indicated that BPD prevalence has indirect relations with age. BPD is high in young people, but the incidence decreases with unit increment in age. This study holds only for age because other factors such as medication were not considered.

Borderline personality disorder has two types of varying signs, which are impulsivity and affectivity. In impulsivity, the patient shows destructive actions, self-harm, and instinct actions, but these symptoms recover quickly and resolve as time progresses. Affectivity symptoms, on the other hand, are long lasting and range from depression to low states that take extended periods to settle.

Studies on borderline personality disorder were conducted in German targeting individu…