Borderline Personality Disorder & Crying | Is Crying Useful Diagnostically?

This video attempts to answer several questions: What is the nature of crying with borderline personality disorder? Does crying tell us anything diagnostically about borderline personality disorder? What is the nature of emotional crying?

Borderline Personality Disorder.

In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), we see nine symptom criteria for borderline personality disorder and five have to be met for a diagnosis. The symptom criteria include frantic efforts to avoid abandonment, unstable relationships, identity disturbance, impulsivity in two areas that are potentially self-damaging, suicidal behavior, affective instability, chronic feelings of emptiness, inappropriate or intense anger or difficulty controlling anger, and paranoid ideation or dissociation.



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