- Does criticism from other people, even in small measure, make you feel horrible inside?
✔ - While being successful in your work life, do you feel as though a happy, successful relationship has been the one thing that's alluded you?
✔ - Would you say your emotional life has been characterized by anguish?
✔ - Have you found it hard to have close friends for very long?
✔ - Do you feel like you have less friends than those around you?
✔ - Do you tend to, at first, over idealize people and later often feel let down by them?
✔ - Have you ever been accused of behaving in ways that are all or nothing with nothing in between?
✔ - Have you taken on the values, habits and preferences of people, institutions, religions or philosophies, only to regret this decision later?
✔ - Have you experienced intense episodes of sadness, irritability, and anxiety or panic attacks?
✔ - Have you often felt raw? exhausted? in despair?
✔ - Do you have trouble sleeping?
✘ - Have you experienced chronic feelings of emptiness? Have you experienced a physical manifestation of this in your stomach or chest?
✔ - Do you have trouble being alone?
Hmmmmm.... - Have you experienced intense relationships?
✔ - Do you feel like other people's emotional needs are too great?
✔ - Have you felt depleted from giving it your all to relationships?
✘ - Have you felt like since you've given it all to relationships and they haven't worked, that your only choice for sanity and balance is to not be in a relationship?
✘ - Do you often feel lonely even when you are in a relationship?
✔ - Do you consciously or unconsciously fear being abandoned?
✔ - Do you seem to require more time with your partner than those you observe around you?
✘ - Does your partner accuse you of having a double standard about the relationship?
✘ - Have you said you feel "unsafe" in your relationship?
✘ - Do you feel like your partner isn't telling you everything?
✘ - Have you ever experienced an overpowering feeling that your partner was keeping things from you? Has your partner expressed feeling falsely accused of doing or saying things?
✔ - Do social engagements and vacations often end up in turmoil?
✔ - Do you feel a strong need for control?
✔ - Are you often afraid that the world is going to cave in on you... that your life is going to collapse if you aren't in control of everything?
✔ - Have you demonstrated outbursts in your most intimate relationships that seemed very appropriate at the time but you regretted later?
✔ - Have you suffered from intense bouts of anger that last for hours, maybe even a few days?
✔ - Are your expressions of anger sometimes followed by shame and guilt?
✔ - Do you ever feel shameful?
✔ - After a relationship has ended, have you felt like you're experiencing Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome?
✔ - Do you feel like any contact with that person causes you too much stress?
✔ - Have you ever cut someone off and refused to speak to them?
✔ - Have you continued to refuse contact no matter how hard they try to reach you?
✘ - Do you use alcohol or drugs to soothe your emotional pain?
✔ - Do you have, or has anyone suggested you have, an eating disorder?
✔ - Have you been known to spend too much, eat too much, be sexually promiscuous, or drive too fast?
✘ - Have others commented or complained you work too much?
✘ - Has anyone ever accused you of being paranoid?
✔ - Have you ever cut yourself?
✔ - Have you ever experienced so much emotional pain that you felt like you wanted to die?
✔ - Have you ever attempted suicide?
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Friday, November 25, 2011
Questions: Borderline Personality Test
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