Borderline personality disorder is a mental illness that causes impulsive behaviors, sever mood swings and an overall incapacity to have normal relationships causes a skewed perception of self worth. People with borderline personality disorder usually do not only suffer with the mental illness alone. Depression, substance abuse and eating disorders are usually involved as well. Everyone has problems with emotions or behaviors sometimes. However,  if you have borderline personality disorder, the problems are severe, repeat over a long time, and disrupt your life. This mental illness has many symptoms that coincide with it.

Some of the most common symptoms of a borderline personality are Intense emotions and mood swings, a irrational  fear of being left alone, aggressive behavior and impulsive activities including binge eating and reckless driving.  Some of the other symptoms of this mental illness may include feeling suspicious or leery of other people for no reason, violent tantrums, a feeling of emptiness, and suicide attempts.

Borderline personality is a mental illness that affect approximately 2 out of every 100 people. There is no exact cause known as of yet for having a borderline personality. Research has indicated however that this mental illness does run families. While there is no cure for borderline personality disorder there are ways of controlling the symptoms. Long term counseling is essential when treating this mental illness. In addition to counseling there are certain medications that can help calm the symptoms. Treatment for borderline personality disorder is hard. Over time border line personality can be maintained. Please note this is a serious mental illness and does require attention by a medical professional.