Form: Personality Assessment Inventory – Borderline, PAI-BOR

1 – False / Not at all true
2 – Slightly true
3 – Mainly true
4 – Very true
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2
3
4
1
My mood can shift quite suddenly.
2
My attitude about myself changes a lot.
3
My relationships have been stormy.
4
My moods get quite intense.
5
Sometimes I feel terribly empty inside.
6
I want to let certain people know how much they've hurt me.
7
My mood is very steady.
8
I worry a lot about other people leaving me.
9
People once close to me have let me down.
10
I have little control over my anger.
11
I often wonder what I should do with my life.
12
I rarely feel very lonely.
13
I sometimes do things so impulsively that I get into trouble.
14
I've always been a pretty happy person.
15
I can't handle separation from those close to me very well.
16
I've made some real mistakes in the people I've picked as friends.
17
When I'm upset, I typically do something to hurt myself.
18
I've had times when I was so mad I couldn't do enough to express all my anger.
19
I don't get bored very easily.
20
Once someone is my friend, we stay friends.
21
I'm too impulsive for my own good.
22
I spend money too easily.
23
I'm a reckless person.
24
I'm carefully about how I spend my money.

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