Abuse in childhood as a precondition for the development of borderline personality disorder in adolescence
Abstract
According to a study of Manchester University, people with borderline personality disorder are 13 times more likely to report childhood trauma than people without any mental health problems. The present study aims to reveal the current state of the problem of physical, mental, and emotional abuse in childhood as a possible factor in the development of borderline symptomatology in adolescence, as well as to examine the rates of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse during childhood among adolescents with borderline personality symptomatology in a non-psychiatric clinical population. As demonstrated by the conducted analysis, traumatic experiences at the early stage of development increase the probability of the development of the disorder at the next stages. Studies on the influence of childhood trauma on mental health demonstrate that it is much more often associated with borderline personality disorder than with mood disorders, psychoses, and other personality disorders. A widespread form of adverse experience most commonly reported by people with borderline personality disorder is physical neglect, followed by emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and, lastly, emotional neglect, although several studies have found the opposite pattern. The findings show that traumatic experiences in childhood may be a predictor of the formation of borderline personality disorder symptoms at a later age. Additionally, it should be noted that emotional abuse and neglect in childhood have the most significant impact on the development of borderline personality disorder in adolescence
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