Borderline Personality
A highly unstable personality style characterized by intense personal relationship problems such as extreme rudeness, agression, or criticalness and flip-flopping of their feelings and opinions of others from one extreme to another. They often have problems with impulsivity (acting on impulse without thinking), substance abuse (drug abuse), and impulsive spending/debting. Individuals with borderline personality often suffer from
depression,
anxiety, and the fear of being abandoned. See also
personality disorders.