The Relationship of Borderline Personality Disorder to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Events

Abstract

The associations of personality disorder with early trauma and PTSD were evident, but modest, in borderline personality disorder and were not unique to this type of personality disorder. The results do not appear substantial or distinct enough to support singling out borderline personality disorder from the other personality disorders as a trauma-spectrum disorder or variant of PTSD.