Borderline, or “borderline personality”, if we translate English! It’s having a tendency to react more intensely than others, even to unimportant things and with sudden and unpredictable mood swings.
It is a personality disorder well identified by the world of psychiatry, which has serious consequences.
How can we realize this?
American psychiatrists, who have decided to store all brain diseases in a kind of “bible” of their specialty, which can be consulted in simplified versions on the Internet, will allow you to make the diagnosis quickly, by detecting at least five symptoms in a list which has a dozen. Simple sensations close to those that almost all of us have felt one day in our lives. But isolated sensations in most of us; sensations that are found in number in the borderline… For example anxiety, irritability or emotional instability, the feeling of emptiness, fits of rage or even self-destructive behavior… This is probably why that we speak of borderline personality and that those who suffer from it are so numerous: 2 to 3% of the population.
It can affect anyone. But it is in fact mainly detectable in young people, and frequent in women.
A personality with consequences
At first glance and given the banality of most symptoms, it is not easy to make people understand that it can be serious. However, some statisticians claim that 60 to 70% of “borderlines” will one day attempt suicide. And psychiatry believes that there is an interest in looking into the detection of this personality disorder.
We begin to understand why we become borderline. Often, there is trauma in childhood; authoritarian and unloving parents. Nothing original… There is also talk of heredity or, a more modern and satisfying version, of excessive sensitivity of certain brains to the hormones they secrete.
If this disorder is suspected, a psychiatrist or psychologist should be consulted, but these “borderline” patients, who do not consider themselves to be ill, often tend to question the legitimacy of those who treat them, which will most of the time lead doctors to use drugs, mainly antidepressants or antipsychotics! Which is excessive.