Borderline Personality Disorder Update

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BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER, EMOTIONS, MENTAL DISORDERS.

Abstract

Introduction: borderline personality disorder is a mental illness that severely affects a person's ability to control his or her emotions.

Objective: to characterize aspects related to borderline personality disorder.

Methods: a literature review was conducted using the descriptive documentary review methodology through the Google Scholar search engine and the Scielo, PubMed, Scopus databases including articles published between 2019 and 2024 using a total of 16 referential articles. 

Results: borderline personality disorder significantly affects psychosocial functioning regardless of gender or the person's environment. Clinical features include mood swings, dysregulation, impulsivity, anger, repeated self-injury and suicidal tendencies, as well as inner emptiness and fear of abandonment, is related to depression. BPD is a common psychiatric disorder and a complex psychiatric illness, patients who received treatments showed comparable improvements in the severity of the disorder.

Conclusions: borderline personality disorder is a mental illness that severely affects a person's ability to control their emotions, it is common and complex nowadays, it affects men more.  There is a relationship between psychosis and neurosis in this disorder, it can produce subtle distortions, especially under stressful conditions.

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2023-12-31

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Pinta-Riofrio MD, Tovar-Proaño A, Checa-Huilcatoma SA, Manuel-Benites R. Borderline Personality Disorder Update. Rev Ciencias Médicas [Internet]. 2023 Dec. 31 [cited 2026 Feb. 14];27(2):e6295. Available from: https://revcmpinar.sld.cu/index.php/publicaciones/article/view/6295

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Vol. 27 No. 2 (2023): Supplement 2: International Scientific Congress on Research and Development UNIANDES Ibarra-Tulcán 2023

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