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Borderline personality disorder is thought to affect between 1% and 6% of the population.
It is more common in women than men.
The most telling sign of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a long history of instability in personal relationships.
This is partly caused by unstable and impulsive emotions.
At one time people with borderline personality disorder can idolise someone else, and soon after they hate them.
As a result those with a borderline personality disorder often have very intense relationships with others.
Borderline personality disorderHere are 7 other signs of borderline personality disorder to look for:
1. Intense
fear of abandonment or being alone, whether real or imagined.
2. The tendency to
take risks without thinking about the consequences. Especially when the results hurt the self e.g. car crashes, risky sex or substance abuse.
3. Attempting to
self-harm or thinking about
suicide. People with borderline personality disorder are not usually trying to kill themselves when self-harming. Rather they are expressing feelings of anger towards the self or trying to feel 'normal'.
4. Having an
unstable sense of self. People with borderline personality disorder may often feel they are different people depending on who they are with. They often describe feeling lost and empty.
5.
Paranoid thoughts and zoning out. Believing in things that are not true or sometimes zoning out so that it appears the person with borderline personality disorder is not really there.
6. Feeling
intense anger โ possibly over relatively trivial matters โ and acting out physically in response.
7. People with borderline personality disorder are often on a kind of
emotional roller-coaster. Intense anxiety could give way to intense depression, then to another strong emotion. These bouts can last a few hours or even a few days.
Mental health professionals usually look for a majority of these symptoms in order to diagnose someone with borderline personality disorder (there are some slightly different systems and related diagnoses).
The psychological treatment for borderline personality disorder often involves training in regulating the emotions.
Sometimes people with borderline personality disorder are given antidepressants.
This is because they are frequently depressed or suffering with other mental problems, such as posttraumatic stress disorder.
The cause of the condition is still not well understood.
However, it is likely a combination of genetic and environmental factors โ as with many mental health problems.
The majority of people can recover from a borderline personality disorder given time and the right treatment.
This is gobsmacking.
Label, drug and stigmatise someone who is clearly suffering - whilst not bothering to find out what's at root of all the suffering.
Here's a FACT, according to the EU department that concerns itself with womens' and girls' rights: In the UK, for example, almost half of ALL WOMEN have been sexually assaulted, often repeatedly and often from a young age.There's no reason to think the stats are much different elsewhere.
To be a child or a woman is to be subject to daily threat of at least some random male taking a pot shot at you.
As we've learnt with horror (both real and obviously faked from some quarters) as a result of the Savile atrocity and all the other 'nice' celebs/VIPs who turn out to be utter bastards,
1. male sexual opportunist and planned predation or violence towards vulnerable children and women is widespread.
2. It IS TOTALLY IGNORED BY OUR AUTHORITIES. Too many of whom are also offenders.
What do these medics suppose this level of daily threat and actual assault - that no one will protect you from - does to a young person?? It seems that assaulted boys often grow up to emulate their offenders and somehow scourge their demons by being bastards themselves -- thus passing on the injuries and damage.
Girls, though, have no such strong role models. Girls and young women, thoroughly traumatised, dismissed and even vilified, sink into abject chronic terror...as manifested in the neat list list of 8 symptoms listed in this article.
To reiterate, I am utterly gobsmacked that these tosser psychiatrists have never made this connection. Indeed, they are absolutely part of the problem. Just as all the NHS medics, nurses, managers and NHS culture were absolutely part of the problem which actively enabled a truly odious and prolific abuser to carry on abusing. Which left many hundreds of victims suffering in silence for years and years.
Remember, symptoms are not the disease. They are merely indicators of malaise. Instead of getting to the root cause of this plethora of women suffering with the same symptoms, in a dreadfully damaging flight of narcissistic fantasy they made up a stereotypical blame-the-victim label and consigned perhaps millions of women to loony bin status.
Dear God, these 'professionals' even identify that some of these poor people are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder! Do they never wonder how these people developed PTSD? Do they never think to put 2 + 2 together? And that PTSD is a far deeper soul injury than is superficially bullet pointed in their neat and sanitised little NICE guides?
No wonder it's found that women can recover....and I'd bet that when they do it's because they've actually found a caring professional who actually listens to their experiences and doesn't dismiss them as nutjobs.
It's worth recalling also that the 'father of psychiatry', the odious Freud, without whom none of these clueless psychiatrists would have jobs, was a coke-head who tried to force his famous patient, Dora, to believe that she should be flattered at the unwanted sexual attentions of her father's paedophilic friend...
I'm disgusted with these so called professionals. Indeed, they should be the very last people to turn with such injuries.
(No, I don't have this or any other personality disorder, I am not a psychiatric professional or patient. I've simply got a great deal more common sense, compassion and intelligence than an army of these so called professionals.)