Editing Borderline personality disorder (section)

====Physical violence====
The stigma surrounding borderline personality disorder includes the belief that people with BPD are prone to violence toward others.<ref name=Chapman_31>{{harvnb|Chapman|Gratz|2007|page=31}}</ref> While movies and visual media often sensationalize people with BPD by portraying them as violent, the majority of researchers agree that people with BPD are unlikely to physically harm others.<ref name="Chapman_31"/> Although people with BPD often struggle with experiences of intense anger, a defining characteristic of BPD is that they direct it inward toward themselves.<ref name=Chapman_32>{{harvnb|Chapman|Gratz|2007|page=32}}</ref>

One 2020 study found that BPD is individually associated with psychological, physical, and sexual forms of intimate partner violence (IPV), especially amongst men.<ref name=MunroMartin>{{cite journal|vauthors=Munro OE, Sellbom M|title=Elucidating the relationship between borderline personality disorder and intimate partner violence|journal=Personality and Mental Health|volume=14|issue=3|pages=284–303|date=August 2020|pmid=32162499|doi=10.1002/pmh.1480|s2cid=212677723|hdl=10523/10488}}</ref>{{Non-primary source needed|date=April 2025}} In terms of the [[Alternative DSM-5 model for personality disorders#Criterion B: Pathological personality traits|AMPD trait facets]], hostility (negative affectivity), suspiciousness (negative affectivity) and risk-taking (disinhibition) were most strongly associated with IPV perpetration for the total sample.<ref name=MunroMartin/>

In addition, adults with BPD have often experienced abuse in childhood, so many people with BPD adopt a "no-tolerance" policy toward expressions of anger of any kind.<ref name=Chapman_32/> Their extreme aversion to violence can cause many people with BPD to overcompensate and experience difficulties being assertive and expressing their needs.<ref name=Chapman_32/> This is one reason why people with BPD often choose to harm themselves over potentially causing harm to others.<ref name=Chapman_32/><ref name=reasons_NSSI /><ref name="Chapman_31"/>