Meaning of borderline-personality disorder | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of borderline personality disorder.

alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually

Examples

“Psychiatrists and lawyers worked from a 500-page manual of mental disorders and bombarded the jury with its jargon. There were learned discourses of schizophrenia, schizoid-personality disorder, borderline-personality disorder, schizotypal disorder, magical thinking, ideas of reference, social isolation, affect that was blunted or inappopriate, narcissistic personality disorder including a grandiose sense of self-importance, preoccupations with fantasies and exhibitionism.”

“He [Brandon Marshall] also Tweeted that he would earmark $1 million to mental-health research, which is significant to Marshall, having been diagnosed in 2012 with borderline-personality disorder.”

“In “Welcome to Me,” Wiig is Alice Klieg, a woman with borderline-personality disorder who wins the Mega Millions lottery and decides to use her windfall to bankroll a TV talk show—with herself as the star.”

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