What defines a “personality disorder”?
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👋 Emotional Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD), formerly known as Borderline Personality Disorder here
The official method for diagnosis is to follow the guidelines stated in the DSM – a large diagnostic manual for diagnosing psychiatric disorders. A psychiatrist is responsible for identifying the symptoms you express and whether it fits the definition of a disorder.
>Personality disorders in general are pervasive, enduring patterns of thinking, perceiving, reacting, and relating that cause significant distress or functional impairment.
Because personality disorders affect how an individual thinks & feels, how they behave and their lifestyle choices, a trained professional can look at all this and clearly see a pattern of a disorder.
As an outsider looking in, you don’t have the same depth of information that the psychiatrist did, so someone like myself could appear completely normal to you – even with my “Emotionally Unstable” label.
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