边缘型人格

邊緣型人格
biānyuánxíngréngé
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 borderline personality (BPD)
  2. 2 borderline personality disorder (short for 边缘型人格障碍)

Examples

Biānyuán xíng réngé zhàng'ài de huànzhě qíngxù bōdòng hěn dà.
Patients with borderline personality disorder have extreme mood swings.
Tā zuìjìn zài kàn yī běn guānyú biānyuán xíng réngé de shū.
She's been reading a book about borderline personality lately.

Tips

usage
边缘 here is a translation of 'borderline' — historically named because symptoms sit on the 'border' between neurosis and psychosis. In casual use Chinese speakers drop 障碍 and say just 边缘人格, same way English shortens BPD casually.

Stroke Order

biān
yuán
xíng
rén