Friends with Benefits & Borderline Personality Disorder | RecoveryMum & Dr. Grande

This video is a collaboration between RecoveryMum and Dr. Grande. We answer two questions submitted by viewers: 1. Can men and women be just friends when Borderline Personality Disorder is involved?, and 2. How does Borderline Personality Disorder affect the "Friends with Benefits" relationship strategy?

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Borderline personality disorder is a Cluster B personality disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). This is the emotional, erratic, and dramatic cluster. It's in the same cluster as narcissistic, antisocial, and histrionic personality disorders. There are nine symptom criteria listed in the DSM for borderline personality disorder: frantic efforts to avoid abandonment, unstable pattern of relationships, identity disturbance, impulsivity in at least two areas where there's self damage, suicidal behavior, affective instability, chronic feelings of emptiness, inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger, and paranoid ideation or severe dissociation.

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