Dealing with Borderline Personality Disorder
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People with Borderline Personality Disorder challenge those close to them with
their often bewildering mood shifts and unpredictable behavior.
Borderline Personality Disorder is a way of being in the world that involves massive mood fluctuations, intense relationships, desperation, and insecurity. BPD is a condition that has its origins in both biology and the environment. The symptoms of BPD include depression, moodiness, anger, disorganization, anxiety, low self-esteem, rage, feeling that life is meaningless, and feeling that one is unworthy or unlovable. The person with BPD may live life without a clear sense of identity. Other symptoms range from feelings of inadequacy and impulsiveness to self-destructive behavior and thoughts of suicide (Bockian 18).
"BPD" affects six million people in North America (Gupta 12). One person diagnosed with BPD said "being borderline feels like eternal hell, you don't know how you are going to feel from one minute to the next." Sadness because I damage those I love. Once in awhile I'll get too happy, and then feel anxious because of that...