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ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2026

Overlaps and differences in the core symptoms of patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and patients with borderline personality disorder.

Anna Christen, Marialuisa Cavelti, Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz, Beatrice Abt-Mörstedt, Hannes Bitto, Patricia E Newark, Franz Moggi, Kerstin Gabriel Felleiter, Niklaus Stulz, Andreas Riedel and 1 more

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Anna ChristenDepartment of Psychology,University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Marialuisa CaveltiUniversity Hospital for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland.
Rolf-Dieter StieglitzDepartment of Psychology, Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Beatrice Abt-MörstedtDepartment of Psychology, Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Hannes BittoDepartment of Psychology, Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Patricia E NewarkDepartment of Psychology, Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Franz MoggiUniversity Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland.
Kerstin Gabriel FelleiterLucerne Psychiatry, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Niklaus StulzLucerne Psychiatry, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Andreas RiedelLucerne Psychiatry, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Salvatore CorbisieroLucerne Psychiatry, Lucerne, Switzerland.

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Background: Individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) show symptomatic overlaps. They both suffer from deficits in emotional regulation, are impulsive and have problems with their self-concept. Therefore, a precise diagnostic differentiation is of great importance. The aim of this study was to find symptom overlaps and differences in patients with ADHD and BPD. Methods: 80 patients with ADHD, 55 patients with BPD and 55 healthy controls were examined regarding their ADHD and BPD symptoms and their degree of emotional dysregulation using self-report instruments. Results: Patients with ADHD and patients with BPD did not differ significantly in their expression of emotional dysregulation. However, the ADHD patients showed higher scores in impulsivity, inattention, and hyperactivity, whereas the group with BPD showed higher scores in self-concept problems and suicidal behaviour. The two clinical groups showed significantly higher scores in emotional dysregulation and all other symptom domains compared to the control group. Conclusion: The symptom overlap in emotional dysregulation yields implications for both further research and diagnosis of ADHD. Further studies should define emotional dysregulation consistently to examine the same construct. Key Practitioner Message: This article yields implications that individuals with ADHD and BPD have several symptom overlaps and in fact have no difference in their emotional dysregulation. This has a vast importance for differential diagnosis and treatment of ADHD.

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ADHDBPDemotional dysregulationimpulsivitypsychopathologyself-conceptsymptom overlap

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