Correlation Between Non Suicidal Self Injury And Suicide...

Correlation Between Non-suicidal Self-injury and Suicide Achievement in Adolescents Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder Abstract: The purpose of this research is to identify the relationship between teenagers with Borderline Personality Disorder who engage in non-suicidal self-injury, and teenagers with Borderline Personality Disorder who achieve suicide. The method this project will use is a simple questionnaire that asks patients four questions about their suicidal tendencies upon arrival at the doctor’s office. Through this research, doctors and psychiatrists will learn how to map trends of patients with BPD and their suicidal tendencies. They will gain knowledge on a very new disorder and will help future patients with†¦show more content†¦From the data, I hope to draw the conclusion that Borderline Personality Disorder patients that engage in self-harm are not attempting suicide, they are simply looking for control in their life. Background: Overall, Borderline Personality Disorder is a relatively new diagnoses that was earlier entwined with Bipolar Disorder. Now, doctors believe that Borderline is its own disorder and does not need to be diagnosed alongside Bipolar. This was decided in the DSM fourth edition revised. This disorder affects about 2% of the population and of those 2%, 75% are women (Gale Encyclopedia Mental Disorders). This disorder does not discriminate against race, but is known as a teenage onset disorder, meaning symptoms start in early adult-hood. Borderline Personality Disorder goes hand in hand with mood disorders such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and attention deficit disorder. In addition to the depression and anxiety that these patients suffer from, a symptom of Borderline Personality Disorder is self-injury. Self-injury includes cutting People diagnosed with Borderline usually have undergone many stress triggers such as sexual abuse, domestic abuse, and drug abuse that acted as environmental factors to induce the disorder. The disorder is new, therefore doctors do not know how to correctly diagnose and treat it; many patients are misdiagnosed before the doctor differentiates the behavior and changes the diagnoses from Bipolar