Introduction:

borderline personality disorder is a mental illness that severely affects a person's ability to control his or her emotions.

Objective:

to characterize aspects related to borderline personality disorder.

Methods:

a literature review was conducted using the descriptive documentary review methodology through the Google Scholar search engine and the Scielo, PubMed, Scopus databases including articles published between 2019 and 2024 using a total of 16 referential articles.

Results:

borderline personality disorder significantly affects psychosocial functioning regardless of gender or the person's environment. Clinical features include mood swings, dysregulation, impulsivity, anger, repeated self-injury and suicidal tendencies, as well as inner emptiness and fear of abandonment, is related to depression. BPD is a common psychiatric disorder and a complex psychiatric illness, patients who received treatments showed comparable improvements in the severity of the disorder.

Conclusions:

borderline personality disorder is a mental illness that severely affects a person's ability to control their emotions, it is common and complex nowadays, it affects men more. There is a relationship between psychosis and neurosis in this disorder, it can produce subtle distortions, especially under stressful conditions.

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