Characteristics of hallucinations in borderline personality disorder. Similarities and differences with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

Abstract

Psychosis can be considered a dimension that in its most severe extreme can be expressed with alterations in sensory perception, mainly hallucinations. Their presence is a fact that is frequently observed in severe psychiatric pathologies such as schizophrenia (EZQ) and bipolar disorder (BD) where they can be markers of severity. However, sensory-perceptual disturbances are not pathognomonic of these disorders, nor do they signal any of these illnesses as an isolated event. Such symptomatology can be described in a variety of situations both within and outside psychopathology. In this sense, proposing a direct line between hallucinations and diseases such as CZS or TB disregards their occurrence in other pathologies, as is the case of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). It is feasible that we may find the expression of pseudo hallucinations or hallucinations in patients with this disorder and their presence may have etiological, clinical and therapeutic connotations that should be reviewed and taken into account in our clinical practice