Josh Clark

Okay, Chuck, so we said that BPD is in the DSM-5.

It's a personality disorder.

And just to differentiate real quick, a mood disorder describes patterns in feelings, like you have mood swings in that, you know, highs and lows, and it's pretty reliable that you're going to have it one way or another.

A personality disorder focuses more on how you relate to others.

And that definitely makes sense to me that you would consider BPD a personality disorder then.

And that's emptiness feeling like isolated or lonely or hopeless.

Impulsive behavior is usually a big one, and you have to have impulsive behavior in at least two areas that are harming your day-to-day life, like an eating disorder and gambling addiction or something like that.

Right.

Another one is –

This is based on – and so this is where some psychiatrists would be like, see, this is not – this is a symptom that we're talking about here.

But it's unstable and intense interpersonal relationships.

Meaning like you're really, really close to somebody for, you know, a couple of days and then they do something you don't like and they're the worst person in the world.

Right.

And it can happen very, very quickly with people with BPD.

And if you stick around and stay in that person's life, you can find yourself walking on eggshells very quickly because you don't want them to turn on you all of a sudden.

So that's a huge one.

If you have a lot of unstable, intense relationships with people that's just kind of the MO, that is usually a big giveaway with BPD.

Right.

I didn't miss it.

That was purposeful.