
■avoid being alone by acting out a crisis or dramatizing a problem
■display provocative behavior
■go on eating or spending binges
■threaten or attempt suicide
■cut, burn or scratch themselves
■have mood swings, brief periods of severe depression or anxiety, or intense anger over something minor
■engage in self-destructive behavior like reckless driving, or abuse of alcohol and other drugs
■say they are bored, life is empty, and they do not know who they are
■have delusions and slip temporarily into a psychosis