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For this research project, I plan on examining the symptoms of and its effects. This project is worthwhile because not many people are aware of this disorder, and therefore, do not know how to deal with it. My intended audiences are adolescents who may be exper ....

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.... patients are like the characteristics of adolescence. Examples of these would be uncertainty of life and career choices, sexual promiscuity, and substance abuse. However, those with Borderline Personality Disorder(B.P.D.) must also have these symptoms: 1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. 2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation. 3. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior. 4. Affective instability: marked shifts from baseline mood to depression, irritabi ....