Emotionally unstable personality disorder
Classification according to ICD-10 | |
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F60.3 | Emotionally unstable personality disorder |
F60.30 | Emotionally unstable personality disorder: Impulsive type |
F60.31 | Emotionally unstable personality disorder: borderline type |
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019) |
In the emotionally unstable personality disorder is a personality disorder that only in the ICD-10 is included.
It is characterized by a clear tendency to act out impulses without considering the consequences, combined with an unpredictable and moody mood. There is a tendency to have emotional outbursts and an inability to control impulsive behavior. There is also a tendency towards contentious behavior and conflict with others, especially when impulsive actions are thwarted or hindered.
Subtypes
According to ICD-10, the emotionally unstable personality disorder comprises two subtypes: the impulsive type (F60.30) and the borderline type (F60.31)
For the impulsive subtype , at least three of the following behaviors must be present (including 2.):
- clear tendency to act unexpectedly and without considering the consequences,
- clear tendency to quarrels and conflicts with others, especially when impulsive actions are prevented or reprimanded,
- Propensity for outbursts of anger or violence with inability to control explosive behavior,
- Difficulty maintaining actions that are not immediately rewarded
- inconsistent and capricious mood.
For the borderline subtype , three criteria of the impulsive subtype must apply as well as two of the following properties:
- Disturbances and uncertainty about self-image, goals and internal preferences (including sexual),
- Tendency to engage in intense but unstable relationships, often resulting in emotional crises,
- excessive efforts to avoid abandonment,
- repeated threats or acts of self-harm,
- persistent feeling of emptiness.
The impulsive type is "mainly characterized by emotional instability and lack of impulse control". In contrast, the borderline type is "additionally characterized by disorders of self-image, goals and inner preferences, by a chronic feeling of emptiness, by intensive but unstable relationships and a tendency to self-destructive behavior with parasuicidal acts and suicide attempts."
The DSM-5 does not differentiate between these two sub-forms.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d ICD-10-GM-2013 . icd-code.de, accessed on July 12, 2013.
- ↑ AWMF : Old S2 guidelines for personality disorders (valid from 2008 to 2013) ( Memento from January 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). P. 9