Drowned in Emotions - Getting to Know Borderline Personality Disorder

Like a balloon with skin fully stretched out by hot air, people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder easily burst up with the slightest touch of a piercing object. They are vessels bobbing through a turbulent sea of emotions, periodically facing the chance of drowning.

Borderline personality disorder is a serious mental condition characterized by consistent mood instability, a distorted self-image and perception of others, as well as emotional deregulation. People with borderline personality disorder often find it difficult to trust others. They are oversensitive to the actions of those around them, and read too much into things. This leads them to forge chaotic, unstable platonic and romantic relationships, wherein they usually end up getting hurt. Their chronic fear of abandonment provokes them to seek out rescue through performance of self-destructive acts such as engagement in vices, promiscuity and overeating. Furthermore, they are confused with their life-goals and career paths, which is why they are unable to maintain employment and work performance. People with borderline personality disorder experience difficulty in controlling their feelings that's why they exhibit sudden, inappropriate and uncontrollable fits of anger, and anxiety. Depression usually accompanies these deep-seated emotional discrepancies and trigger self-mutilation practices and suicide.

To protect their ego and achieve a sense of release from the state of panic, people with borderline personality disorders will accuse others with their own faulty characteristics (projection), or become what they think is pleasing to others (identification). They may also believe that their thoughts can cause things to happen or that the world is sabotaging their plans(magical thinking) and be convinced that they know everything and are always right, regardless of what is actually happening (omnipotence). These defense mechanisms often contribute to their instability and make them misunderstood individuals.

People with borderline personality disorders are not completely incompetent individuals, in contrast to their standardized depiction. Some of those afflicted with the condition are in fact, creative and intelligent people that have contributed more to the world, than the normally facilitated man. When engulfed in their self-made struggles and sufferings, and plagued by their unending questions about life, people with borderline personality disorders produce the most thought-provoking art forms. Their empathic personality and sensitivity to the needs of others make them great public servants. This also makes them keen observers, analysts, and critics; able to generate significant and empowering ideals for the improvement of life and government. Adolph Hitler, the Princess of Wales, Marilyn Monroe, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and Susanna Kayson are just some of those great personalities diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

Jessica Suarez has spent years on the study on Borderline Personality Disorder, and has written books on BPD treatments.

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