Antisocial Personality Disorder vs. Borderline Personality Disorder

This video answers the question: What is the difference between antisocial personality disorder and borderline personality disorder? Both of these disorders are Cluster B personality disorders - this is the dramatic, emotional, and erratic cluster. With antisocial personality disorder there are seven symptom criteria: violating social norms (repeatedly engaging activities that would be grounds for arrest), deceitfulness, impulsivity, irritability or aggression, disregarding one's own safety or the safety of others, irresponsibility, and lack of remorse. Borderline personality disorder has nine symptom criteria: frantic efforts to avoid abandonment, unstable relationship patterns (this is the love-hate cycle that we see with borderline personality disorder), difficulties with self-image (we refer to this as identity disturbance), impulsivity in at least two areas that could be self-damaging, suicidal behavior, gestures, and threats, affective instability, chronic feelings of emptiness, intense and inappropriate anger, and paranoid ideation or dissociation.
The etiology for Cluster B personality disorders, and specifically for antisocial and borderline personality disorders, includes negative life events like trauma and poor parenting. Both disorders tend to have a marked increase in severity and adolescence, then they tend to be the same or decline a little bit in young adulthood. There is a plateau or decreasing symptoms in late middle age.
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Видео Antisocial Personality Disorder vs. Borderline Personality Disorder канала Dr. Todd Grande