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leilurhhh

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What are the three important problems in borderline personality disorder?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Which of the following questions and responses would provide the most useful information in assessing a patient suspected of suffering Alzheimer's disease?
 
  a) Can you point to your eye?
   b) How are you feeling today?
   c) Spell the word 'chair' backwards.
   d) Walk a straight line from here to the wall.



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Answer to Question 1

(1) Identity disturbances, reflected in borderline individuals chronic feeling of emptiness or boredom and their intolerance of being alone. These people have a strong need for involvement with others and a reliance on external support for self-definition. (2) Affective disturbance reflected in their intense, inappropriate anger, emotional instability, and unstable interpersonal relationships. Borderline patients often lead stormy, dramatic lives. (3) Impulse disturbance, reflected in their self-damaging acts and impulsive behaviors.

Answer to Question 2

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