What Is BPD?
4. Self-Injury
Deliberate self-harm, such as burning or cutting, is a common behavior in people with BPD. Other kinds of self-injury could include punching or hitting, poisoning with medications or toxic chemicals, deliberately starving, or exercising excessively. Often these actions may be in response to a fear of rejection or separation.
Excessively low moods or self-blame may also trigger thoughts of suicide. Making plans or threats, intending to act on those thoughts, or even going through with an attempt are other extreme expressions of self-harm. Triggers to such destructive behaviors are unexpected and unmanageable.
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