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1-2%: What is the prevalence of Borderline Personality Disorder in the general population?
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1) Frantic efforts to avoid abandonment 2) unstable relationships 3) identity disturbance 4) impulsive 5) suicidal ideations 6) affective instability 7) Anger: What are some signs and symptomology of Borderline Personality Disorder?
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10%: Completed suicide in Borderline Personality Disorder occurs in up to ___% of patients.
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20-30%: In the emergency room, __-__% of patients meet the criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder.
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Abnormal frontolimbic circuiting: New evidence suggests that an abnormality in what underlies Borderline Personality Disorder?
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Borderline Personality Disorder: This occurs as a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts...
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dysphoric affect, guilt, tension, dissociative symptoms, and/or to communicate emotions: Cutting, burning, & associated attempts to cause pain within Borderline Personality Disorder are often due to attempts to regulate what ?
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Lithium Carbonate: Controlled clinical trials demonstrate the efficacy of what in the treatment and diminishment of anger, irritability, & self-mutilation in the process of Borderline Personality Disorder?
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Low agreeableness & Low Conscientiousness: On the 5-factor model of personality scale, patients with Borderline Personality Disorder often show low levels of what?
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Multiple suicidal gestures, self-mutilation, & self injurious behaviors: Among the most striking actions and behaviors of patients with Borderline Personality Disorder is what?
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Neuroticism: On the 5-factor model of personality scale, patients with Borderline Personality Disorder often show high levels of what?
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Olanzapine (Atypical Antipsychotic): What is also used in Borderline Personality Disorder to improve upon paranoia, impulse aggression, and depression?
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Rage, Anxiety, & Despair (R.A.D.): The Borderline Personality Disorder patient's mood often switches between what three things over the course of a single day?
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Relationships, in combination with an expectation of mistreatment or exploitation: Borderline Personality Disorder patients are characterized by a poorly-established self-image that is heavily dependent for validation on what?
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Sexual Abuse: Self-Injurious behaviors of Borderline Personality Disorder are especially associated with a history of what during childhood?
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The normal separation-individuation phase of development between the child and the mother, as well as other aberrant parenting patterns: Psychoanalytic thinking of the etiology of Borderline Personality Disorder commonly focuses on disturbances in what?
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Women: Borderline Personality Disorder is more commonly identified in whom? (Men or Women)
