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What is the difference between borderline personality disorder and ASPD?
Because they are both personality disorders, antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) shares many of the same traits as borderline personality disorder (BPD). However, the causes of these conditions and the ways in which they manifest can be strikingly different.
What are the differences between men and women with borderline personality disorder?
Compared to women with BPD, men with BPD display more antisocial features. While men with BPD are more likely to abuse substances, women are more likely to have co-occurring eating disorders.
Is there a gender difference in aggression in BPD?
Taken together, results from self-report and interview-based measurements and behavioral tasks in BPD patients show a different pattern than in the general population. In the general population, men have been found to engage in more aggression than women, whereas in BPD, most studies did not find such a gender difference in aggression.
Are women more likely to have BPD?
Women are also more likely to have mood, anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorders in addition to their BPD diagnosis. One study conducted in England found that both men and women were equally likely to participate in skin-cutting. Self-harming behaviors such as skin-cutting do not appear to vary by gender.
Antisocial Personality Disorder. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5) issued by the American Psychiatric Society, a person with antisocial personality disorder must be at least 18 years old and have severe problems functioning in these two specific areas:
This process is disrupted in individuals with comorbid antisocial (ASPD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD), who tend to misinterpret others’ motives. Antisocial characteristics stabilize mentalizing by rigidifying relationships within prementalistic ways of functioning.
What are the personality traits of people with BPD?
According to the DSM-5, people with BPD will have the following personality traits: Negative affectivity: Negative affectivity is characterized by unstable and unpredictable mood changes that are more dramatic than a situation warrants.