Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Borderline Man

2016; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 33; Issue: S1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.1872

1778-3585

Tiago Santos, E. Conde, R. Almeida Leite, Vítor Santos, J. Alcafache,

Youth, Drugs, and Violence

Introduction As it has been for the last 30 years, male borderline personality are still misdiagnosed and herded into substance treatment, anger management and prison. Gender matters from the failure of clinicians to identify it in men to the failure of researchers to study how it affects men differently and the treatment implications of those dissimilarities. Methods The authors propose a retrospective study investigating all patients hospitalized with Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis from 2000 to 2015 in Baixo Vouga Hospitalar Center. Results From an average of 500 patients admitted per year, in the considered period, the number of men with this psychiatric diagnosis was irrelevant. Conclusions Taking into account the results, it is important recognise some gender differences in borderline personality disorder with respect to specific types of self-harm behavior, such as self-cutting or levels of psychological distress at clinical presentation in order to prevent clinical disgnosis failure. Disclosure of interest The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.