Borderline Personality Disorder and Its Symptoms

Borderline Personality Disorder is often caused by neglectful and/or abusive parents or guardians. It causes emotionally instability and can lead to stress and numerous other problems. You develop a distorted image of yourself, that you're worthless and flawed. Your mood swings are frequent and you often become angry for no good reason.

While you fervently desire loving relationships, these you tend to ruin by these sudden outbursts of anger, which obviously turn people away from you.

Your self-image can change rapidly. You see yourself one minute as a caring, loving individual, but the next, as a thoroughly bad, evil person. Even, on occasion, that you don't exist at all, which make your feelings of worthlessness all the more pronounced. This typifies Borderline Personality Disorder and its symptoms.

There are no grey areas in your life, only black and white thinking. Without this ability for 'grey' thought, you're quite incapable of compromise or seeing anyone else's point of view. It follows, then, that you frequently experience love-hate, idealizing a person for a short while, then turning around and hating them.

One of the most unfortunate symptoms is that the sufferer may be well aware of their destructive behaviour, but there isn't anything they can do about it. An analogy would be the alcoholic who knows perfectly well that his or her drinking habits are destructive, both to her and those around her, but she simply can't stop.

A full bottle of liquor is like a magnet from which it's impossible to resist.

Other symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder consist of risky, destructive behaviour, such as excessive drinking, drug taking, unsafe sex, dangerously fast driving, especially under the influence of drink and/or drugs, and any other behaviour that's potentially destructive.

Your emotions are strong and will wax and wane and certainly so far as the outsider is concerned, are quite meaningless because of this 'swing.'

You're also liable to intense, but short lived, bouts of anxiety and depression. Your black and white thinking is no help at all with the latter condition.

Occasionally, you may become so angry for no apparent reason that you'll resort to physical violence. It's a paradoxical illness in so many ways. For instance, you have a real fear of being alone, but what else can you expect?

The tragedy, as I've noted above, is that you're almost certainly aware of this.

You can feel misunderstood, alone, empty and hopeless, but your difficulty in controlling your emotions plays a great part in this.

A desire for suicide, too, stalks you like a dark shadow, and of course your impulsive behaviour is almost an invitation for final self-destruction

Mike Bond, talking about a particularly nasty condition. Learn about a lot more mental disorders on my Website by clicking on The Hypnosis Attraction

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