The results of a new study suggested three often-overlooked borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms may have the strongest tie to suicide attempts.
These symptoms include an unstable sense of self, chronic feelings of emptiness and frantic efforts to avoid abandonment. The study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, investigated several risk factors for suicide across four different personality disorder diagnoses.
Researchers focused their report largely on borderline personality disorder because of its strong correlation with suicide attempts.
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