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borderline-personality disorder en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually) Alternative form of borderline personality disorder.
In “Welcome to Me,” Wiig is Alice Klieg, a woman with borderline-personality disorder who wins the Mega Millions lottery and decides to use her windfall to bankroll a TV talk show—with herself as the star.
2015 May 8, Steven Rea, “[Kristen] Wiig drawn to fragile, complex characters”, in Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, Fla., →ISSN, →OCLC, Calendar section, page 6, column 1:He [Brandon Marshall] also Tweeted that he would earmark $1 million to mental-health research, which is significant to Marshall, having been diagnosed in 2012 with borderline-personality disorder.
2014 May 20, “Overtime: The lighter side”, in Santa Barbara News-Press, Santa Barbara, Calif., →OCLC, page C2, column 2:Psychiatrists and lawyers worked from a 500-page manual of mental disorders and bombarded the jury with its jargon. There were learned discourses of schizophrenia, schizoid-personality disorder, borderline-personality disorder, schizotypal disorder, magical thinking, ideas of reference, social isolation, affect that was blunted or inappopriate, narcissistic personality disorder including a grandiose sense of self-importance, preoccupations with fantasies and exhibitionism.
1982 June 22, Associated Press, “[John] Hinckley [Jr.] innocent in [Ronald] Reagan shooting: Would-be assassin might be set free”, in The Arizona Republic, 93rd year, number 37, Phoenix, Ariz., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A2, column 2:
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