WHAT THE HELL IS BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER???

[bear eating a salmon]

they're the ones who go around saying they're gonna kill themselves, and cut themselves for attention.

[Pipe Private]

To me, it's always been much like Bipolar Disorder on steroids.

[calamito]

This is pretty good.

Basically people with BPD don't know how to handle their emotions and it leads to very hectic, back and forth unstable relationships. One day you love someone and think they're wonderful, and all it takes is them doing one things wrong and all of a sudden you hate them and don't want them around. You don't know how to handle being angry or sad, so when you experience these things they are extremes ("I'm sad - I want to die" or "I ******** hate you and I'm pissed" wink . This black and white way of thinking is called "splitting" and is common in BPD. People with BPD can also experience a sort of mania at times, too though. These moods are usually very extreme or uncontrollable and last only a few hours. There's also attention-getting behavior and other coping mechanisms like drug use, or eating disorders.

Anyway.. that's just some of the stuff. I don't know everything, but I knew somebody with it and have read a book about it. Very hectic and dramatic.

[blazewing2010]

AdiMonster

So last winter i took some crazy and loooooooooooooooooooooong test that told me i had some things (id have to find the paper) and it also told me i had FEATURES of BPD.

Ive tried understanding it but i just dont get it!!
UGH!
If youre going to try to tell me what it is please dont tell me "i think its when....blah blah blah"
Just tell me what it means in a way i can understand.
THANK YOU!

I have an undiagnosed BPD. Essentially, what this means for me, is that my personality shifts slightly with my moods, making me appears sometimes as a different person. Emotions affect how you deal with and react to things.

[Bootiful Lia]

ginaookami

AdiMonster

So last winter i took some crazy and loooooooooooooooooooooong test that told me i had some things (id have to find the paper) and it also told me i had FEATURES of BPD.

Ive tried understanding it but i just dont get it!!
UGH!
If youre going to try to tell me what it is please dont tell me "i think its when....blah blah blah"
Just tell me what it means in a way i can understand.
THANK YOU!

I have an undiagnosed BPD. Essentially, what this means for me, is that my personality shifts slightly with my moods, making me appears sometimes as a different person. Emotions affect how you deal with and react to things.

undiagnosed BPD? personality shifting slightly has nothing to do with this disorder.

I know, because I have it diagnosed, and suffer a great deal.

It's being talked about being rename as "Emotional Dysregulation Disorder" Because that's what it is, essentially. An inability to regulate ones emotions. There are high rates of suicide attempts made among the BPD community. The best way that I can describe it is that a person with BPD (full blown, for the most part) is that we feel our emotions (whatever your go-to emotion is, generally, whether it be anger, depression, anxiety, etc) so deeply and overwhelmingly that you would almost rather die than feel that emotion. Those are some of the key components of it. I also have a severe fear of abandonment. To the point that I will cut people out of my life before they can abandon me. It's some sick, twisted way of I won't get abandoned if I abandon you first.

My personality doesn't switch, I'm the same all the time. Destroying lives left and right. But I'm warm and cuddly until I get triggered by something. We're a complex disordered person.

But maybe I was just misunderstanding you.

Sorry, I get a little touchy. But BPD is something that you can't diagnose yourself with, because there are so many components that go in to it and so many other disorders to consider before being able to diagnose it with. I am also diagnosed with a few other things, as well as a secondary diagnosis that overlaps with the BPD.

Sorry if I came off as rude. I'm a blunt person and I'm trying to learn how to come off as not being rude but I'm not good at it yet.

[Suicidesoldier#1]

It's similar to homosexuality.

[AliKat1988]

Suicidesoldier#1

It's similar to homosexuality.

cat_question cat_confused emotion_facepalm I cannot believe you are comparing the two. They are quite different. Do you have any idea what borderline personality disorder is?

[Suicidesoldier#1]

AliKat1988

Suicidesoldier#1

It's similar to homosexuality.

cat_question cat_confused emotion_facepalm I cannot believe you are comparing the two. They are quite different. Do you have any idea what borderline personality disorder is?

Um...

It's where sometimes you are homosexual but other times you are not?


Cause it's like, a different person, other than you.

Yep, that's the only possible other alternative.

[AliKat1988]

Suicidesoldier#1

AliKat1988

Suicidesoldier#1

It's similar to homosexuality.

cat_question cat_confused emotion_facepalm I cannot believe you are comparing the two. They are quite different. Do you have any idea what borderline personality disorder is?

Um...

It's where sometimes you are homosexual but other times you are not?


Cause it's like, a different person, other than you.

Yep, that's the only possible other alternative.

That is only a fragment of it for some people with it. It is a disorder related to extreme and volatile emotional reactions that can cause changes in many aspects of life. Sexual orientation sometimes changes for some of them, but is one of the less frequent changes that you find in the disorder. It is more often romantic relationships and friendships get serious fast and, subsequently, dissolve quickly and dramatically. It is always the same person, just with an ever changing emotional state and unstable self concept. Dissociation happens, but it is only sporadic and short term for some borderlines.

[Suicidesoldier#1]

AliKat1988

Suicidesoldier#1

AliKat1988

Suicidesoldier#1

It's similar to homosexuality.

cat_question cat_confused emotion_facepalm I cannot believe you are comparing the two. They are quite different. Do you have any idea what borderline personality disorder is?

Um...

It's where sometimes you are homosexual but other times you are not?


Cause it's like, a different person, other than you.

Yep, that's the only possible other alternative.

That is only a fragment of it for some people with it. It is a disorder related to extreme and volatile emotional reactions that can cause changes in many aspects of life. Sexual orientation sometimes changes for some of them, but is one of the less frequent changes that you find in the disorder. It is more often romantic relationships and friendships get serious fast and, subsequently, dissolve quickly and dramatically. It is always the same person, just with an ever changing emotional state and unstable self concept. Dissociation happens, but it is only sporadic and short term for some borderlines.

lol I know, but I'm joking. xd

It would be impossible to argue with an alley cat or bacon anyways. xp


In Borderline Personality disorder people aren't the same as with DID cause they don't usually dissociate themselves; I.E. aren't a another person.

But it's practically like they are another person, almost like turning on a switch it seems, and in certain situations may respond or behave differently then would be expected, almost as if they are another person.


You got same mood swings and strange temperament but just on a different method of operation than DID or Manic Depression.

[Bootiful Lia]

Suicidesoldier#1

AliKat1988

Suicidesoldier#1

AliKat1988

Suicidesoldier#1

It's similar to homosexuality.

cat_question cat_confused emotion_facepalm I cannot believe you are comparing the two. They are quite different. Do you have any idea what borderline personality disorder is?

Um...

It's where sometimes you are homosexual but other times you are not?


Cause it's like, a different person, other than you.

Yep, that's the only possible other alternative.

That is only a fragment of it for some people with it. It is a disorder related to extreme and volatile emotional reactions that can cause changes in many aspects of life. Sexual orientation sometimes changes for some of them, but is one of the less frequent changes that you find in the disorder. It is more often romantic relationships and friendships get serious fast and, subsequently, dissolve quickly and dramatically. It is always the same person, just with an ever changing emotional state and unstable self concept. Dissociation happens, but it is only sporadic and short term for some borderlines.

lol I know, but I'm joking. xd

It would be impossible to argue with an alley cat or bacon anyways. xp


In Borderline Personality disorder people aren't the same as with DID cause they don't usually dissociate themselves; I.E. aren't a another person.

But it's practically like they are another person, almost like turning on a switch it seems, and in certain situations may respond or behave differently then would be expected, almost as if they are another person.


You got same mood swings and strange temperament but just on a different method of operation than DID or Manic Depression.

With BPD there can be massive dissociative episodes, but it's not the same kind of dissociation as DID. I have huge blackouts that are associated with my BPD but are not DID.