title: Obsessive-compulsive disorder comorbid with borderline personality disorder: a long-term case study.
abstract: Three case reports of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) for more than 10 years are used to illustrate the relationship between OCD and borderline pathology. The recognizable features of the obsessive-compulsive symptoms in these reports are: (i) pervasiveness, the symptomatic overlap of obsessive-compulsive symptoms; (ii) poor insight and resistance; and (iii) obsessive control evident in personal relationships. These features are manifestations of OCD psychopathology as well as of a personality disorder. The symptoms with these features are located hypothetically towards the severe end of the symptomatic spectrum of OCD. The comorbidity is not a simple relationship, and the symptomatology of the comorbid patient is derived from OCD pathology linked with the personality disorder rather than from independent BPD pathology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hayashi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales