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Borderline personality and obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

D McKay1, S Kulchycky, S Danyko

  • 1Department of Psychology, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458-5198, USA. mckay@fordham.edu

Journal of Personality Disorders
|April 4, 2000
PubMed
Summary

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) patients who self-mutilate show higher levels of obsessive-compulsive symptoms. This suggests self-mutilation may indicate a more severe form of BPD psychopathology.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychiatry and Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Behavioral Science

Background:

  • Borderline personality disorder (BPD) diagnosis encompasses diverse symptoms.
  • Self-mutilation in BPD is a behavioral excess potentially predicting other psychopathological states.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare BPD patients who self-mutilate with those who do not.
  • To assess differences in general psychopathology, depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms between these two BPD groups.

Main Methods:

  • Comparative study design.
  • Assessment of psychopathology, depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in two distinct BPD patient cohorts (mutilators vs. non-mutilators).

Main Results:

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  • The primary significant difference identified was in obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
  • BPD patients engaging in self-mutilation exhibited significantly higher obsessive-compulsive symptomatology compared to non-mutilators.

    • Conclusions:

    • Self-mutilation appears to be associated with a more severe presentation of psychopathology within the BPD population.
    • Findings support the affect regulation model of self-mutilation and contrast with impulse control models related to obsessive-compulsive disorder.