Borderline personality disorder (BPD) can cause a wide range of symptoms, which can be broadly grouped into 4 main areas.

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can cause a wide range of symptoms that is grouped into 4 main areas.

The four areas are, emotional instability, disturbed patterns of thinking or perception, impulsive behaviour, intense but unstable relationships with others.

Emotional instability

In BPD, emotional instability is experiencing a range of intensive negative emotions, such as, rage, sorrow, shame, panic, terror and so.

Disturbed patterns of thinking

Different types of thoughts can also affect people with BPD, which includes, upsetting thousands and brief episodes of strange experiences.

Impulsive behaviour

There are 2 types of impulses that one could find extremely difficult to control in BPD, they are an impulse to self harm and they have a strong impulse to engane in reckless and irresponsible activities.

Unstable relationships

If one has BPD, one may feel that other people would abandon them when they would need them the most or that they would get too close and smother you.

When people fear abandonment it could lead to feelings such as intense anxiety and anger.

Sources: https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/borderline-personality-disorder/symptoms/