How to Use borderline personality disorder in a Sentence

borderline personality disorder

noun
  • In the study, most women were more likely to have borderline personality disorder.
    — Eric Taipale, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Doja Cat is opening up to her fans about her battle with borderline personality disorder.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • One record includes the case of a Dutch woman in her 30s with autism and borderline personality disorder.
    — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 28 June 2023
  • Pete Davidson has opened up about having borderline personality disorder, even using it as a punchline in many of his jokes.
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 24 June 2020
  • Alpert told me about a client who insisted that his girlfriend had borderline personality disorder, a rare and serious mental illness.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The authors hope their work leads to progress in the development of effective treatments for borderline personality disorder.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
  • While research shows that most people with borderline personality disorder see an improvement in their symptoms with treatment over time, de la Rosa does not find comfort in that.
    — Rebecca Erly, New York Times, 3 July 2023
  • Davidson added that the trauma of the ordeal left him with severe abandonment issues — a symptom of borderline personality disorder.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • As for medication, there is no one medication designed to treat the core symptoms of borderline personality disorder.
    — Heather Mayer Irvine, Health, 24 Jan. 2023
  • He is thought to have suffered from a combination of bipolar and borderline personality disorder, though these illnesses were never diagnosed.
    — Jack Guy, CNN, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Sissi is more of a depressive rather than a narcissist or someone suffering borderline personality disorder.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 May 2022
  • My mom probably has narcissism and borderline personality disorders but has never been diagnosed.
    — Annie Lane, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Research is now shedding light on the misconceptions around conditions such as borderline personality disorder and narcissism.
    — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Ryder played Kaysen, an 18-year-old girl with borderline personality disorder who is sent to a local psychiatric hospital.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 7 May 2024
  • Pete Davidson, who has borderline personality disorder (BPD), is one of them.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 27 Jan. 2021
  • She was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and entered treatment again, this time for both bulimia and BPD.
    — Eden Laase, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2026
  • People with borderline personality disorder often feel other people’s emotions so deeply that those feelings become indistinguishable from their own.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 11 June 2026
  • The singer was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder, and spent six years in and out of mental health facilities.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • Women with borderline personality disorder are roughly twice as likely to practice BDSM as those without.
    — Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Women with borderline personality disorder are roughly twice as likely to practice BDSM as those without.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The comedian has been candid about his journey with PTSD and borderline personality disorder, both of which led him to enter rehab last summer.
    — Evan Rosen, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Also, children who slept for shorter periods at night were more likely to be associated with borderline personality disorder at ages 11 and 12.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 1 July 2020
  • Studies show that children exposed to abuse or high-conflict environments often develop a fear of abandonment and rejection, which can lead to complex trauma or borderline personality disorder.
    — Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 7 Mar. 2025
  • But after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, Bianca struggled to make connections with other teens.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 16 June 2024
  • Having lost a previous love interest, and experiencing at an early age the deaths of both father and older brother, this young woman may have suffered from what today would be labeled borderline personality disorder.
    — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022
  • For someone living with borderline personality disorder (BPD), that same silence can feel like evidence that something is terribly wrong.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 11 June 2026
  • Psychedelics can be destabilizing for people who’ve had psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, and potentially for people with bipolar or borderline personality disorder.
    — Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Dorn told police that he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, anxiety and depression, but had not taken his medications for about four months, court documents said.
    — Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Of course anger is associated with many other disorders including depression, bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder, to name a few.
    — Naomi Weinshenker, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Greg Williams Bailey also talks about her borderline personality disorder diagnosis and has been refreshingly open with how her mental health intermingles with her daily life.
    — Margaux Anbouba, ELLE, 25 Apr. 2023

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