Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Confused, scared, worried....

Frantic [marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion] efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment [withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility]

A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization[defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad] and devaluation [the reduction of something's value or worth]

Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self,

Impulsivity [proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus] in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating).

Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior,
Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphasia, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days),

Chronic [being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering] feelings of emptiness [lacking reality, substance, meaning, or value]

Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights),

Transient [one who stays for only a short time], stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative [a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently] symptoms.

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