Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder

PART B:
BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND REVIEW OF AVAILABLE EVIDENCE

V.      DISEASE DEFINITION, EPIDEMIOLOGY, AND NATURAL HISTORY

A.      DEFINITION and CORE CLINICAL FEATURES
The essential feature of borderline personality disorder is a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, affects, and self-image, as well as marked impulsivity that begins by early adulthood and appears in a variety of contexts. These characteristics are severe and persistent enough to result in clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
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1.   Associated features

2.   Comorbidity

3.   Complications
Borderline personality disorder is characterized by notable distress and functional impairment. A majority of patients attempt suicide. Completed suicide occurs in 8%– 10% of individuals with this disorder, a rate that is approximately 50 times higher than in the general population.
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B.     ASSESSMENT
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C.     DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
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D.     EPIDEMIOLOGY
Borderline personality disorder is the most common personality disorder in clinical settings.
It is present in 10% of individuals seen in outpatient mental health clinics, 15%–20% of psychiatric inpatients, and 30%–60% of clinical populations with a personality disorder.
It occurs in an estimated 2% of the general population (1, 136).
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E.     NATURAL HISTORY and COURSE
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Warning:
All the informations on this site are with an aim of helping to understand a "particular" disease at the very least and puzzle
But more especially to support peoples who suffer, sick or not.  In all cases, it is ESSENTIAL to have recourse to a therapist specialized in the disease to confirm or to cancel a diagnosis
Though it is the name doesn't much matter, which is important, it is to apply "the right" treatment to each patient