Black and White Thinking / Splitting (Symptoms and Signs of Borderline Personality Disorder BPD)
Channel: The Rewired Soul
Date: 06/06/2018

Black and white thinking, or "splitting" is one of the trademark symptoms and signs of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). What is black and white thinking? It's when the brain has trouble separating the truth from the false. It makes you think of a person as all good or all bad, which can make relationships and life difficult. 

In this video, we're going to talk about recovery and treatment through a simple writing practice I use. When you take the time to do it, this practice can help keep BPD rage under control. 


What are the symptoms:
1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. Note: Do
not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in
Criterion 5.
2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships
characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization
and devaluation.
3. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self
image or sense of self.
4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially selfdamaging
(e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless
driving, binge eating). Note: Do not include suicidal or selfmutilating
behavior covered in Criterion 5.
5. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or selfmutilating
behavior.
6. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g.,
intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a
few hours and only rarely more than a few days).
7. Chronic feelings of emptiness.
8. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g.,
frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical
fights).
9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe
dissociative symptoms.


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