Suicide
Suicidality is a defining feature of Borderline Personality Disorder. BPD is the only personality disorder to have suicidal or self-injurious behaviour among its diagnostic criteria. Patients are at significant risk for completed suicide. As many as 80% of sufferers have suicidal behaviours and about 1 in 10 commit suicide.
Suicide stems from a desire to end your life, to die. Self-harmimg behaviours do not stem from a desire to die but some may be life-threatening. These behaviours include cutting,burning, head banging and other harmful acts. This may be done to help regulate their emotions, to punish themselves or to express their pain.
People with BPD are more likely to complete suicide than people with any other psychiatric illness. 8-10 per cent is the rate of borderline suicides and this is more than 50 times the rate of suicide in the general population. The reason for so many suicides?....
Emotional experiences are so painful that many would like to find a way to escape. BPD is a chronic condition which means it usually lasts for years and there may seem to be no other way out of it.
Suicide is a serious risk for people suffering with BPD that must ALWAYS be taken seriously.
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