Case Study Borderline Personality Disorder
1. Name of the client: Elizabeth Kennedy
2. Client's diagnosis: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
3. Main diagnostic criteria: - Unstable self image lead to unstable relationships with others. - Impulsive actions such as spending, sex, binge eating, etc. - Affective instability - an intense emotional response to environmental triggers; characterized by rapid mood shifts. - Self-mutilation - Chronic feeling of emptiness
4. The symptoms the client described that were consistent with the diagnosis. Describe at least 2 symptoms from the diagnostic criteria. - Liz describe her symptoms of BPD almost to the T. She engages in impulsive and compulsive shopping, suicide attempts, anger, and extreme loneliness. Liz also attempted suicide
2. Client's diagnosis: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
3. Main diagnostic criteria: - Unstable self image lead to unstable relationships with others. - Impulsive actions such as spending, sex, binge eating, etc. - Affective instability - an intense emotional response to environmental triggers; characterized by rapid mood shifts. - Self-mutilation - Chronic feeling of emptiness
4. The symptoms the client described that were consistent with the diagnosis. Describe at least 2 symptoms from the diagnostic criteria. - Liz describe her symptoms of BPD almost to the T. She engages in impulsive and compulsive shopping, suicide attempts, anger, and extreme loneliness. Liz also attempted suicide