IPDE Companion: Borderline Personality Disorder Pattern Review
This IPDE companion tool helps clinicians evaluate Borderline Personality Disorder patterns across multiple contexts, including relationships, emotional regulation, and impulse control. It is designed to capture the pervasive and enduring nature of personality patterns critical for accurate diagnosis.
IPDE Companion: Borderline Personality Pattern Review
Mark Zauss, LMHC, LPC, CCMHC, NBCC, BC-TMC, ASDCS, NATC, CCTP, CCTP II, ADHD-CCSP, C-DBT, C-PD
Double Board Certified Counseling Services, Inc.
Client / Assessment Information
Clinical Anchor
Use this page to document cross-context and longitudinal personality-pattern evidence, including interpersonal, affective, impulse-control, identity, and stress-response patterns.
Proprietary-tool note: This page is not the official IPDE and does not reproduce IPDE wording. It is an original documentation companion.
Cross-Context Pattern Review
1. Abandonment sensitivity and urgent reassurance-seeking patterns
2. Relationship instability, conflict cycles, idealization/devaluation, or rupture-repair difficulty
3. Identity instability, unstable goals/values, self-image shifts, or chronic self-doubt
4. Impulsivity or rapid behavior under emotional activation
5. Self-harm history, suicidal ideation, suicidal behavior, threats, or crisis vulnerability
6. Affective instability, rapid emotional shifts, emotional flooding, or delayed return to baseline
7. Chronic emptiness, numbness, boredom intolerance, or lack of stable internal grounding
8. Anger intensity, anger control difficulty, shame after anger, or interpersonal consequences
9. Stress-related suspiciousness, paranoia-like thoughts, dissociation, derealization, or depersonalization
Score and clinical summary will appear here.