More recently the new manual DSM-IV, has changed the criteria which is made of nine components and do be diagnosed a patient must have five of the nine components to meet the minimum. The nine components are; i) avoidance of real or imaginary abandonment, ii) altering extremes of idealization and devaluation, iii) identity disturbance, iv) impulsivity in at least two areas that are self-damaging, v) recurrent suicidal behaviors, vi) affective instability, vii) chronic feeling of emptiness, viii) intense or inappropriate anger and difficulty controlling it, xi) paranoid ideational, or dissocia...

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