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Can head injury cause borderline personality disorder?

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Trauma in childhood can cause devastating psychological issues later in life. Interpersonal challenges and psychiatric disorders both can result from trauma. Major depression, panic disorder, substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder and eating disorders are all common outcomes associated with trauma during childhood. read more

Brain injury can also contribute to psychiatric issues including depression, severe anxiety, substance abuse, or obsessive compulsive disorder. Some survivors experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a consequence of the circumstances and medical events that caused the brain injury. read more

TBI may increase the likelihood that people will develop, or at least manifest, TBI. For example, as Streeter et al. (1995) showed, 42% of war veterans diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, but only 4% of war veterans not diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, had experienced TBI. read more

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