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Borderline 048
She has come to the last resort to avoid abandonment. Her face says, "I don't know what else to do, I've lost all control."
Part of my self-portrait series on personality disorders. These photos are depicting Borderline Personality Disorder.
The DSM-IV-TR criteria for BPD are:
1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.
3. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.
4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging
5. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, threats or self-injuring behavior such as cutting
6. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood
7. Chronic feelings of emptiness, worthlessness.
8. Inappropriate anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).
9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation, delusions or severe dissociative symptoms
These photos are heavily focused on the emotional sensitivity, instability and insecurity and the frantic attempts to avoid abandonment paired with patterns of threatened or performed self-harming behaviors. These photos are a deliberate exaggeration of these symptoms and are not meant to stigmatize individuals with BPD.
Individuals with BPD tend to form very intense and unstable relationships with others. In these photos, my character, in the midst of a very dramatic emotional episode involving her significant other, is blocking the door threatening to harm or deface herself (by cutting off a chunk of her hair) in a frantic attempt to keep him from leaving her.
A variety of emotions are portrayed in this set, indicating fear, desperation, insecurity, self-hatred, and intense and extreme emotions towards the other person. Others indicate more of an overt, deliberately manipulative motive.
For more information about BPD, go to:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder#DSM...
Once I have completed a set of self-portraits for each personality disorder, only one of these will be chosen for the final set when I can more easily determine which photos fit the best in relation to the others.
Borderline 048
She has come to the last resort to avoid abandonment. Her face says, "I don't know what else to do, I've lost all control."
Part of my self-portrait series on personality disorders. These photos are depicting Borderline Personality Disorder.
The DSM-IV-TR criteria for BPD are:
1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.
3. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.
4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging
5. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, threats or self-injuring behavior such as cutting
6. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood
7. Chronic feelings of emptiness, worthlessness.
8. Inappropriate anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).
9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation, delusions or severe dissociative symptoms
These photos are heavily focused on the emotional sensitivity, instability and insecurity and the frantic attempts to avoid abandonment paired with patterns of threatened or performed self-harming behaviors. These photos are a deliberate exaggeration of these symptoms and are not meant to stigmatize individuals with BPD.
Individuals with BPD tend to form very intense and unstable relationships with others. In these photos, my character, in the midst of a very dramatic emotional episode involving her significant other, is blocking the door threatening to harm or deface herself (by cutting off a chunk of her hair) in a frantic attempt to keep him from leaving her.
A variety of emotions are portrayed in this set, indicating fear, desperation, insecurity, self-hatred, and intense and extreme emotions towards the other person. Others indicate more of an overt, deliberately manipulative motive.
For more information about BPD, go to:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder#DSM...
Once I have completed a set of self-portraits for each personality disorder, only one of these will be chosen for the final set when I can more easily determine which photos fit the best in relation to the others.