complications

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Complications of personality disorder:

Self-harm:

Self-harm is common if you have borderline personality disorder (BPD). People self-harm to help manage feelings that are triggered by specific events or strong negative emotions. It can also act as a way of coping with distressing events and communicating the stress that they feel.

Use of alcohol and drugs:
People with personality disorders can find that they use drugs or drink alcohol to cope with difficult emotions and feelings. This is sometimes known as dual diagnosis. Drinking alcohol or using drugs can lead to:
  • doing things that you might not do normally (loss of inhibition)
  • behaving impulsively (acting on the spur of the moment), and
  • poor physical health.
Antisocial personality disorder and borderline personality disorder have the strongest links with alcohol and drugs.

If you use drugs or drink alcohol heavily, you may find that some specialist personality disorder services will say that you need to cut down or stop before you can use the service.
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Reference:

Personality disorder.(n.d). Retrieved from: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/perdonality-disorder-symptoms/syc-20354463.accessed on 19 march 2018.

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