Form: Borderline Personality Inventory, BPI

Borderline Personality Inventory, BPI
1. I frequently experience panic spells.
Yes
No
2. Recently there has been nothing that has affected me emotionally.
Yes
No
3. I often wonder who I really am.
Yes
No
4. I often take risks that can cause trouble for me.
Yes
No
5. I feel smothered when others show deep concern towards me.
Yes
No
6. Sometimes another person appears in me that does not belong to me.
Yes
No
7. I have seen strange figures or visions when nothing was really there.
Yes
No
8. Sometimes I feel that people and things around me are not real.
Yes
No
9. My feelings towards other people quickly change into opposite extremes (e.g., from love and admiration to hate and disappointment).
Yes
No
10. I often feel a sense of worthlessness or hopelessness.
Yes
No
11. I have often wasted money, or lost it in gambling.
Yes
No
12. I have heard voices talking about me, when nobody was really there.
Yes
No
13.

If answered yes on previous question

These voices came from:
a) outside of me
b) within me
No
14. In close relationships I am hurt again and again.
Yes
No
15. Sometimes I act or feel in a way that does not fit me.
Yes
No
16. I have had the feeling of being directed or controlled from outside, like a puppet on a string.
Yes
No
17. I have attacked someone physically.
Yes
No
18. I have had the feeling that my thoughts are audible.
Yes
No
19. Sometimes I feel guilty as if I had committed a crime, although I did not really commit one.
Yes
No
20. I have intentionally done myself physical harm.
Yes
No
21. Sometimes I feel that people or things change in their appearance, when they really do not.
Yes
No
22. I have had intense religious experiences.
Yes
No
23. In romantic relationships I am often uncertain what kind of relationship I want.
Yes
No
24. Sometimes I feel a special sense of destiny (e.g., like a prophet).
Yes
No
25. If a relationship gets close, I feel trapped.
Yes
No
26. I have felt the presence of another person, when he or she was not really there.
Yes
No
27. Sometimes my body or parts of my body seem strange or somehow changed to me.
Yes
No
28. If relationships become too close, I often feel the need to break them off.
Yes
No
29. Sometimes I feel that other people are out to get me.
Yes
No
30. I have often used drugs (hash, LSD, etc.)
Yes
No
31. I enjoy having control over someone.
Yes
No
32. Sometimes I feel I am someone special.
Yes
No
33. Sometimes I feel like I am falling apart.
Yes
No
34. Sometimes it is difficult for me to tell, whether something really happened, or whether it occurred only in my imagination.
Yes
No
35. I often act spontaneously without thinking about the consequences.
Yes
No
36. Sometimes I feel a sense of not being real.
Yes
No
37. Sometimes I have the feeling that my body is dissolving or that a part of my body is missing.
Yes
No
38. I often have frightening dreams.
Yes
No
39. I often have the feeling that others laugh or talk about me.
Yes
No
40. People often appear to me to be hostile.
Yes
No
41. I have had the feeling that other people have injected their thoughts into my mind.
Yes
No
42. I often don't know what I really want.
Yes
No
43. I have attempted suicide.
Yes
No
44. Sometimes I believe that I have a serious disease.
Yes
No
45. I have been addicted to alcohol, drugs, or pills.
Yes
No
46. Sometimes I feel I am living in a dream, or see my life before me as if it were a movie.
Yes
No
47. I have often stolen things.
Yes
No
48. I often experience pangs of hunger which cause me to devour everything in sight.
Yes
No
49. I am often unsecure about questions concerning politics, religion or morals (good and evil).
Yes
No
50. Sometimes I have murderous ideas.
Yes
No
51. I have been in trouble with the law.
Yes
No