When planning care for a client diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, which self-harm behavior should a nurse expect the client to exhibit?

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Clients with borderline personality disorder often engage in suicidal gestures, such as superficial self-harm, with the intention of eliciting a rescue response from others. While some clients may have a history of suicide attempt with highly lethal methods, this is not a consistent behavior across all clients with borderline personality disorder. Isolation and starvation are not common self-harm behaviors in this population. Self-mutilation is often used by clients with borderline personality disorder as a way to regulate emotional distress and is not necessarily related to decreased endorphins in the body.

When Planning Care for a Client Diagnosed with Borderline Personality