This Borderline Personality Disorder screening test can help determine whether you might have the symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
Directions:
Respond to the following items with either yes or no.
When you have responded to all items, click the Score button
at the bottom of the page.
1)
My relationships are very intense, unstable, and alternate between the extremes of over idealizing and undervaluing people who are important to me.
Yes
No
2)
My emotions change very quickly,and I experience intense episodes of sadness, irritability, and anxiety or panic attacks.
Yes
No
3)
My level of anger is often inappropriate, intense and difficult to control.
Yes
No
4)
Now, or in the past, when upset, I have engaged in recurrent suicidal behaviors, gestures, threats, or self-injurious behavior such as cutting, burning or hitting myself.
Yes No
5)
I have a significant and persistently unstable image or sense of my self, or of who I am or what I truly believe in.
Yes No
6)
I have very suspicious ideas, and am even paranoid (falsely believe that others are plotting to cause me harm) at times; or I experience episodes under stress when I feel that I, other people or the situation is somewhat unreal
Yes No
7)
I engage in two or more self-damaging acts such as excessive spending, unsafe and inappropriate sexual conduct, substance abuse, reckless driving, and binge eating.
Yes No
8)
I engage in frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment by people who are close to me.
Yes No
9)
I suffer from chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom.
Yes No
Scoring:
0-4 (You may have symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder)
5-10 (Higher likelihood you have Borderline Personality Disorder)
Some of the symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder can be treated through therapy and medications. Please print out your BPD test and score and share it with your doctor or therapist.
