When a patient diagnosed with borderline personality disorder experiences the death of a beloved parent, which characteristic response will the nurse anticipate?
a. Denies the death for a protracted period of time
b. Exhibits several different psychotic thought processes
c. Expresses extreme anger and rage by burning the parent's clothes
d. Becomes uncharacteristically helpful and attends to the funeral arrangements
ANS: C
If a significant person in the patient's life dies, the patient with borderline personality disor-der cannot mourn but often exhibits one or more of the six constituent states that include an-ger and rage. The other options are not characteristically seen as mourning behaviors in indi-viduals with this diagnosis.
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