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Is borderline personality disorder the cause of chronic headache?

Author(s) -

Hugo André de Lima Martins

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

avanços em medicina

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2763-6232

pISSN - 2676-0347

DOI - 10.52329/avanmed.15

Subject(s) - borderline personality disorder , impulsivity , personality , clinical psychology , affect (linguistics) , psychology , population , psychiatry , chronic pain , medicine , social psychology , environmental health , communication

Patients with chronic headache are challenging for the clinician and often refractory to pharmacological treatment. Personality disorders affect up to 10% of the population, and borderline personality disorder is the most prevalent. It is characterized by a high degree of impulsivity, emotional instability, interpersonal relationship problems, fragile self-esteem, and pain distortion, which may often be the cause but not a consequence of chronic Headache.

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