What is borderline personality disorder?
A person with borderline personality disorder (BPD) struggles to feel confident in themselves, has trouble controlling their emotions and impulses, and has trouble interacting to others.
High degrees of anxiety and fury are common in those who have BPD.
They are easily offended by the actions or words of others.
People who have BPD may struggle with distressing thoughts and beliefs about other people and themselves. Their social, family, and work lives may suffer as a result. BPD patients occasionally hurt themselves.
The majority of BPD sufferers have their first symptoms in adolescence or as a young adult, which typically subside as they get older. A person struggling with BPD has no fault and did not cause it.
Why do some people have borderline personalities?
BPD’s precise causes are still unknown. It is likely brought on by both genes and experiences, not simply one or the other.
Life troubles during growing up may be particularly harmful for someone who is naturally very sensitive. These issues could be brought on by unpleasant events or the presence of another mental illness. It is impossible to determine who will experience BPD.
Signs of Borderline personality disorder
A person with BPD will exhibit a number of these symptoms:
- Having a propensity to worry that others would desert them. This can lead to them making frantic attempts to prevent being abandoned by others, even in circumstances when others wouldn’t feel betrayed or take it personally.
- Being in exceptionally passionate and unstable relationships (e.g. idealising another person, then intensely disliking them).
- Being extremely insecure about oneself; not really knowing who one is or what one should think of oneself.