
Similarities and differences between complex posttraumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder
Complex posttraumatic stress disorder symptom | Borderline personality disorder symptom | |
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Similarities | Emotional dysregulation | |
Negative self-perception | ||
Impairment of relationship | ||
Serious relational problem in both | ||
Differences | Negative self-perception | Self-awareness is much more unstable |
Chronic guilt, feeling worthlessness, fear of getting close and avoding relationships | Fragmented feeling of self | |
Obsession with relationships that appears when intense hostility disappears, breaking off relationships for fear of abandonment |