Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a very serious matter. The term borderline has been thrown around a lot lately and it is important to always see a trained and licensed therapist who specializes in BPD before trying to self diagnose or diagnose other friends you know with this troublesome malady.

A lady with borderline personality disorder can typically have the vast majority of her relationships be chaotic and unstable. A common theme in the lives of ladies with this illness is low self-esteem, frequent outbursts of anger and frustration, and impulsive behavior. All of the signs of borderline personality disorder in women begin fairly early in adulthood.

Common signs of this mental illness in women include the fear of being left alone or abandoned by those they love or in relationships. This fear of abandonment is a common theme in their life even when the abandonment is not a real threat or even a possibility. Loved ones can tell a lady with this disorder that they love them and will not leave them but the person suffering from BPD still fixates on the perceived abandonment.

Another sign of borderline personality disorder in ladies is that they tend to become dependent on others, often time this dependency combined with the fear of abandonment leads ladies to have erratic behavior and often times abandoning or ending relationships before there is a possibility for themselves to be abandoned.

Typically those who are diagnosed with this type of mental illness have at least five of the following signs of borderline personality disorder.

BPD in women trait number one: She makes frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.

Borderline personality disorder trait number two: Women with this disorder have a pattern of difficult relationships with the common theme of these relationships being erratic emotional extremes of either intense love and admiration or hatred of the person in the relationship.

Trait number three: Ladies with BPD often have an unstable self-image and are unsure of their own identities.

Trait number four: Women with BPD have a tendency to act impulsively in ways that are self-damaging, these include spending sprees, sex with many partners, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, reckless driving and binge eating.

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Swine flu cases in Michigan are raising the question about what role obesity plays in some people with infections become seriously ill. It has been brought to our attention that a large number of people who have gotten extremely ill with the swine flu infection are either obese or extremely obese.

However, health officials disregard the role of obesity in the severity of the infection. According to them, people with swine flu are getting extremely ill due to the fact that heavy people tend to have asthma and other conditions that make them more susceptible. Obesity alone has never been seen as a risk factor for seasonal flu.
In the meantime, it is important to note that the government is about to spend an additional $1 billion in ordering swine flu vaccination.

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