Open AccessIs borderline personality disorder the cause of chronic headache?
Author(s) -
Hugo André de Lima Martins
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
avanços em medicina/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.