MILLON'S SUBTYPES [ BPD EDITION ]
Note: all definitions are taken directly from Millon's writings, which are quite old, with only a few edits and rephrasings to make things more digestible to a modern audience.
📃 The Discouraged Borderline — Generally acts pliant, submissive, loyal, and humble. Feels vulnerable and in constant jeopardy. Feels hopeless, depressed, helpless, and powerless.
▐ has avoidant and dependent traits
📃 The Petulant Borderline — Negativistic, impatient, restless, as well as stubborn, defiant, sullen, pessimistic, and resentful. Easily feels slighted and is quickly disillusioned.
▐ has negativistic traits
📃 The Impulsive Borderline — Captivating, capricious, superficial, flighty, distractable, frenetic, and seductive. When fearing loss, the individual becomes agitated. Often gloomy, irritable, and potentially suicidal.
▐ has histrionic or antisocial traits
📃 The Self-Destructive Borderline — Inward-turning, self-punishing, and angry. Abilities to conform and integrate have deteriorated. Increasingly high-strung and moody.
▐ has depressive and self-defeating traits
More of Millon's subtypes:
[ASPD] [AVPD] [BPD] [DPD] [DPPD]
[HPD] [OCPD] [PPD] [NGPD] [NPD]
[SAPD] [SDPD] [STPD] [SZPD] [TPD]














