Mnemonic for Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD) features – borderline
AM SUICIDE
- Abandonment
- Mood instability
- Suicidal behaviour
- Unstable and intense relationships
- Impulsivity
- Control of anger difficult
- Identity disturbance
- Dissociated and paranoid symptoms that are stress-related and transient
- Emptiness, chronic feelings of
RAISED
- Relationships often unstable
- Abandonment, fear of (and efforts to avoid abandonment)
- Image of self is disturbed/unclear
- Suicidal / Self-harm thoughts and actions
- Emptiness feelings (chronic) / Emotionally labile
- Dissociated feelings
IMPULSIVE
- Impulsiveness
- Mood labile, often low
- Paranoia or dissociation under stress
- Unstable self-image
- Labile, intense relationships
- Suicidal gestures
- Inappropriate anger
- Vulnerable to abandonment
- Emptiness (feelings of)
