At least in two areas and are self damaging. Self-mutilating, gestures, threats and behavior. Severe mood shifts. Depressed and lost one moment and euphoric the next. Chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom.
Life is generally uninteresting and holds no meaning.
Inappropriate display of anger, or difficulty controlling anger, temper tantrums. Stress-related paranoid ideation. Severe dissociative symptoms. The borderline feels helpless in her situation. It is said the borderline personality denotes a personality that is somewhere between the sane and insane, therefore, borderline.