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This category is for people who have borderline personality disorder, a personality disorder characterized by a long-term pattern of unstable relationships, a distorted sense of self, and strong emotional reactions.
The stigma surrounding borderline personality disorder includes the belief that people with BPD are prone to violence toward others. [242] While movies and visual media often sensationalize people with BPD by portraying them as violent, the majority of researchers agree that people with BPD are unlikely to physically harm others. [ 242 ]
Pages in category "Fictional characters with borderline personality disorder" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Histrionic personality disorder; Dramatic behavior is a key marker of histrionic personality disorder: Specialty: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry: Symptoms: Persistent attention seeking, dramatic behavior, rapidly shifting and shallow emotions, sexually provocative behavior, undetailed style of speech, and a tendency to consider relationships more intimate than they actually are.
Mad Love – 1995 – character of Casey Roberts played by Drew Barrymore [12] Fear – 1996 – character of David McCall played by Mark Wahlberg [12] Girl, Interrupted – 1999 – character of Susanna Kaysen played by Winona Ryder [14] Thirteen – 2003 – characters of Evie and Tracy played by Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood respectively. [15]
In 1979, Lenore E. Walker proposed the concept of battered woman syndrome (BWS). [1] She described it as consisting "of the pattern of the signs and symptoms that have been found to occur after a woman has been physically, sexually, and/or psychologically abused in an intimate relationship, when the partner (usually, but not always a man) exerted power and control over the woman to coerce her ...
People with bipolar disorder may develop dissociation to match each mood they experience. For some, this is done intentionally, as a means by which to escape trauma or pain from a depressive period, or simply to better organize one's life by setting boundaries for one's perceptions and behaviors.
Misdiagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) can occur due to symptom overlap with other mental health conditions and the high rate of comorbidity in personality disorders. [2] Research has shown that having a personality disorder like BPD is a significant vulnerability factor for comorbidity with other mental health conditions.