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People with borderline personality disorder may experience intense mood swings and feel uncertainty about how they see themselves their feelings for others can change quickly and swing from upstream closeness to extreme dislike these changed changing feelings can lead to unstable relationships and emotional pain people with borderline personality disorder also tend to view things in extremes such as all good or all bad they're interesting values can change quickly and they may act impulsively or recklessly other signs and symptoms may include efforts to avoid real or perceived abandonment such as plunging head first into relationships or any of them just as quickly a pattern of intense unstable relationships with family friends and loved ones a distorted and unstable self-image or sense of self impulsive and often dangerous behaviors such as spending sprees unsafe sex substance misuse reckless driving and binge eating however if these behaviors happen mostly during times of elevated mood or energy they may be symptoms of a mood disorder and not borderline personality disorder self-harming behavior, such as cutting. recurring thoughts of suicidal behaviors or threats intense and highly variable moods with episodes lasting from a few hours to a few days chronic feelings of emptiness inappropriate intense anger or problem controlling anger feeling of dissociation such as feeling cut off from oneself observing oneself from outside one's body or feelings of unreality. describe the signs and symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder.