Emotions
- Heightened emotional sensitivity
- Quick and intense emotional reactions
- Slow returns to normal mood
- Chronic problems with depression, anxiety, anger or anger expression
Behavior
- Suicide threats or attempts
- Self-harm behaviors such as cutting or burning
- Impulsive behaviors such as binge-purge eating, substance abuse, high-risk sexual activity, gambling or excessive spending
- Engage frantic efforts to keep relationships, out of fear of abandonment, that ultimately fail
Thinking
- Extreme black-or-white/all-or-nothing thinking
- Difficulty making decisions and solving problems
- “Detached” thinking including mild inattention and episodes of severe dissociation