Table 2 DSM-5 symptom criteria for borderline personality disorder [5]
| 1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment 2. A pattern of unstablea and intense interpersonal relationships 3. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaginga 4. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self 5. Recurrent suicidal behaviour, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behaviour 6. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mooda 7. Chronic feelings of emptiness 8. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling angera 9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms | |
| Associated features supporting the diagnosis | |
| • Recurrent job losses, interrupted education, and separation or divorce are commona |