The 9 Most Frequent Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder

Is Borderline Personality Disorder affecting your private and professional life? Do you want to know more about the most frequent Symptoms associated with BPD?

Read on to unveil the nine most common manifestations of BPD!

1. Professional and lay opinions are talking about the most common feature of Borderline Personality Disorder, the fear of abandonment and punishment. These phobias have their roots in childhood or teenage years and stem from negative parent-child relationships characterized by abuse, coldness, rejection, or inconsistent parenting. If divorce comes along with these negative parenting styles, the possibility in the child to develop borderline personality in the young adult years becomes important.

2. This abandonment fear leads to frequent anger and fury episodes. Real or imaginary signs of rejection, disrespect, or maltreatment coming from others are interpreted as signs of abandonment through the lens of past experiences in the home environment.

3. The third most common symptoms in borderline personality are the rapid mood changes. These do not have to lead to anger outbursts with every occasion, however they are difficult to manage and control, thus making one to run into challenges in the everyday activities.

4. The fourth most common sign of borderline personality is the chronic sense of internal void. Some sufferers describe it very well as emotional or inner numbness. If left untreated this emotional state becomes stable and constant as a defensive response to the inner pain, anger, and distress.

5. Fifthly are coming the destructive or potentially destructive behaviors toward the self. Such behaviors can be compulsive shopping, sex, substance abuse like alcohol and drugs, or binge eating. These behaviors are intended to ameliorate negative emotions and distress on the short run, however they maintain and perpetuate the situation on long-term.

6. The sixth specific symptom in borderline personality is comprised by the impulsive behaviors or decisions. These are made without too much weighing and usually without considering the repercussions. Such behaviors may be sudden leaves from relationships, job resignation, or school abandonment and are followed by feelings of remorse or regrets and compensating or betterment attempts.

7. BPD individuals are also facing chaotic relationship mainly as a consequence of the abandonment dread. At the smallest hints or cues reactions of anger and fury are triggered which occasionally will deliver the very thing a BPD sufferer fears, the abandonment.

8. Unhealthy and unadaptive self-perceptions are also frequently found in borderline personality since they emerge in the first years of life. When love, understanding, affection, and bonding are missing in the parent-child relationship, these unhelpful and critique types of self-perceptions will come along.

9. Also as a consequence of the unsupported home environment, young adults will have a tendency to recurrently look back into their past. This tendency stems from a self-protecting mechanism of the brain which frequently reiterates past memories in order to protect the individual from present challenges. However this strategy reinforces the past fears instead of providing a real solution.

But the most important thing you need to remain with from this article is that Borderline Personality Disorder and its associated symptoms are treatable today if specific steps and new mentalities are accepted and implemented in everyday life.

More here about Borderline Symptoms!

And by the way I have put together a free ebook with the most essential things you need to know about Borderline Personality disorder and its associated symptoms, as well as with a number of quick and efficient tips and strategies to help you ease your emotional pain and relationship issues, whether you are the sufferer, your child, or your spouse/partner: "Surviving The Hellhole"!

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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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Borderline Personality Disorder - Beyond Managing the Symptoms - Having a Great Life!

Long gone are the dark days of suffering in isolation from the symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Many of us have worked hard through recovery and are now leading productive, happy lives with meaningful relationships. We have careers we love, a strong sense of self, and stable emotional regulation. Even though Borderline Personality Disorder is a relatively new diagnosis, with even newer treatment options, those of us who have accepted our ailment and worked hard at recovery are now beyond just managing the symptoms-we are living wonderful lives.

Remember those days not long ago when a diagnosis of cancer meant certain death? We no longer think in those terms for cancer. Today, most cancer patients successfully undergo treatment and get on with life. The same is becoming true about Borderline Personality Disorder. Though once considered a virtual death sentence, a diagnosis today can lead to entering into effective treatment and getting on with living a meaningful life.

We are finding that our recovery is worked in steps:

1. Accepting diagnosis, getting educated and finding treatment.

2. Getting symptoms under control and going into remission.

3. Building relationships, finding meaningful work, knowing and believing in self.

As you may imagine, step three is where the real fun begins, but eventually we all learn to embrace everything about our lives, even the hard parts of the past. But many of us can recall driving a stake in the ground and saying, "this is where it all changes!" the day we figured out what exactly was wrong with us--the day we accepted our diagnosis.

If you are in step two and beginning to get your symptoms under control, there are some things you can begin doing now to lead into step three.

Start getting involved with people, some-where, some how, even if it is only through the mental health community, such as support groups for those with mental illness. You may also find people in church groups or college courses. Take a self-inventory of what you really love and join a club or group of like-minded individuals. This could be anything from a singing to a dog-loving group. People everywhere are trying to find other people to befriend.

If you have been in isolation for an extended period of time, it may seem awkward to be around people at first. You may not know what to do. Here's a tip for you: wherever you go, just serve. Just go to help. Notice other's needs and contribute where you can. This takes the pressure off of you and will really help build your confidence. The old adage, "if you want a friend, be a friend" really does hold true. Just go serve. That's all.

To find meaningful work that makes you feel good about yourself, begin by building on serving in a more organized way. For example, once you've gone to that certain club or group for a little while, volunteer to make the coffee or put up the chairs each time. Start very small and build. Over time, your resilience and confidence will grow and you will be able to do more.

You have been through so much. Be patient with yourself. And know that all you've been through can be used for many good things. Your innate sensitivity will begin to serve you well.

And remember, charity does indeed begin at home. No matter how ill you are when you begin your recovery, you can begin by doing small things for the people you live with. Start today by doing something small for some-one near, without them even knowing it. And don't forget to smile!

Tami Green

To see how I overcame this disorder, including treatment options, visit my website at: http://www.borderlinepersonalitysupport.com

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Borderline Personality Disorder - 7 Symptoms and What it Is

Borderline Personality Disorder is a particularly distressing condition, because there's no cure for it and there's no drug that can give a 'quick fix.'

Someone suffering acute anxiety or depression does at least have the advantage of taking Klonopin or Xanax to take the edge off their anguish for a while. With Borderline Personality Disorder, the people who suffer from it, mainly women, don't have that luxury.

One to two percent of American adults suffer from this disease, and it's reported by therapists that it's the most common of all the personality disorders that they treat. The reason isn't far to seek.

It seems that the root desire of people with BPD, their sort of 'raison d'etre,' is to find someone to care for them, to nurture them, look after them. A lot of sufferers report an abusive and/or neglected childhood. This illness starts to manifest itself in early adulthood and is less common in older people.

The big problem is that the sufferer goes to the doctor or therapist, thereby finding someone to listen to them. The doctor will prescribe medications and the therapist will do all that's possible to dig down and try to find out why the patient's acting as they do. This is fine, thinks the patient. Someone actually cares about me. So they keep going to the therapist, who may well have given them some 'homework' to do, like writing out all they can remember about their childhood.

They go back to the doctor, who sees no change in them simply because they haven't taken their medications. Why should I? they think, when I have someone to listen to me. In the end, both therapist and doctor become thoroughly fed up with them, and erroneously consider them time-wasters.

When or if they do form relationships, they're extremely intense and they expect the partner to be with them the whole time. If whomever they're with does finally leave them, they consider themselves as having been abandoned and become extremely angry.

Again, like Paranoid Schizophrenia, there are no grey areas in their life. Everything's black or white, good or evil. If they are left alone, they're liable to feel that they don't exist, that they're not real. I'm sure it must be a very alarming feeling.

Following on the heels of this, they become very impulsive, and reckless. For instance, they're likely to drive their car as fast as they possibly can. They often become very promiscuous and engage in drug abuse and drinking. They're also likely to self-mutilate to a greater or lesser degree. Occasionally, if the illness becomes really bad, they may hallucinate and develop paranoia and psychotic thinking. The symptoms of this disease are as follows.

1. They desperately try to avoid abandonment or being left on their own.

2. Because of this, they may develop a slew of very intense, but unstable, relationships.

3. Their self-image varies daily.

4. They're impulsive in at least two of the following areas; sex, spending money, drugs and alcohol, binge eating.

5. They become suicidal, either in fact or gesture.

6. Mood instability. They may become very irritable, anxious, dysphoric, (the opposite of euphoric).

7. Anger problems and fighting.

Drugs that can help are Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, They should help the depression and impulsiveness. Risperidal again can help with depression and the feelings of not being real, and anticonvulsant medications for anger. It's interesting to note that depression will creep in wherever it can

Mike Bond discussing Borderline Personality Disorder. This is a very nasty illness. There appears to be no recovery and there's no cure. Learn a lot more about various mental conditions on Mike's website at [http://www.panattack.com]. Read about his own experiences and don't forget to watch and listen to the video [http://www.panattack.com].

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The Main Symptoms and Manifestations of Narcissistic Borderline Personality Disorder

Are you suspecting that you or someone you know suffers from Narcissistic Borderline Personality Disorder?

First let's make a short incursion in these personality disorders separately than we will see how we can tell apart one from the other.

To start with, the specific symptoms and manifestations of BPD consist of emotional instability, unstable relationships which are based on an intense abandonment fear, a deep feeling of emotional void or deep inner emptiness, marked and/or unstable self-identity, episodes of intense fury, potentially self-destructive impulsive behaviors, paranoid ideation in intensely distressing circumstances, and attempts threats or ideation to commit suicide.

The characteristics of narcissistic personality consist of general patterns of grandiosity, intense need for others' admiration, and lack of empathy.

The borderline is shy, timid, and insecure, lacks self-confidence, has a lack or fairly unstable self-identity, dreads the next invalidation, and bursts out into anger when a real or imaginary invalidation occurs. On the other hand, the narcissistic is overly self-confident, profits from others' hard work with no regards to the consequences, doesn't have empathy, starves after god-like admiration from others, and relies on manipulation or any kind of blackmailing to get what he/she wants from others right now.

Also the narcissistic wants exceptional treatment, thinks that he/she is entitled for special privileges without merits, networks only with high status personalities and despises others who are below those standards. Is haughty, does not threat to or ideate over committing suicide, and manifests no overt anti-social behaviors, unlike the borderline personality sufferers.

Narcissistic people put a great deal of effort into maintaining their VIP appearance, manifest attitudinal and verbal contempt to others who are seemingly less important, and are disgustingly grandiose and perfectionists with others.

Interestingly, about 75% of the borderline sufferers are women, while the same percentage is comprised by narcissistic men.

On a general basis, narcissistic borderline personality people will have one personality as staple, the other one giving the specific personality shades of that person.

So what is the way of not mixing up the many details of these personalities in a person who suffers from both?

The best way is to look at the general and most frequent tendencies, and then to identify the details specific for the secondary traits.

In relationships for instance a borderline will leave the impression of insecurity, neediness, instability, and lack of self-confidence, while the narcissistic will send the message that he or she is the one individual who really matters and all the others are ornaments who just work for him/her.

There are a number of other very important things you need to know about borderline personality as well as the other related mental disorders. So kick-start your recovery with my free eBook "Surviving The Borderline Hellhole"!

Narcissistic Borderline Personality Disorder

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The 9 Most Frequent Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder

Is Borderline Personality Disorder affecting your private and professional life? Do you want to know more about the most frequent Symptoms associated with BPD?

Read on to unveil the nine most common manifestations of BPD!

1. Professional and lay opinions are talking about the most common feature of Borderline Personality Disorder, the fear of abandonment and punishment. These phobias have their roots in childhood or teenage years and stem from negative parent-child relationships characterized by abuse, coldness, rejection, or inconsistent parenting. If divorce comes along with these negative parenting styles, the possibility in the child to develop borderline personality in the young adult years becomes important.

2. This abandonment fear leads to frequent anger and fury episodes. Real or imaginary signs of rejection, disrespect, or maltreatment coming from others are interpreted as signs of abandonment through the lens of past experiences in the home environment.

3. The third most common symptoms in borderline personality are the rapid mood changes. These do not have to lead to anger outbursts with every occasion, however they are difficult to manage and control, thus making one to run into challenges in the everyday activities.

4. The fourth most common sign of borderline personality is the chronic sense of internal void. Some sufferers describe it very well as emotional or inner numbness. If left untreated this emotional state becomes stable and constant as a defensive response to the inner pain, anger, and distress.

5. Fifthly are coming the destructive or potentially destructive behaviors toward the self. Such behaviors can be compulsive shopping, sex, substance abuse like alcohol and drugs, or binge eating. These behaviors are intended to ameliorate negative emotions and distress on the short run, however they maintain and perpetuate the situation on long-term.

6. The sixth specific symptom in borderline personality is comprised by the impulsive behaviors or decisions. These are made without too much weighing and usually without considering the repercussions. Such behaviors may be sudden leaves from relationships, job resignation, or school abandonment and are followed by feelings of remorse or regrets and compensating or betterment attempts.

7. BPD individuals are also facing chaotic relationship mainly as a consequence of the abandonment dread. At the smallest hints or cues reactions of anger and fury are triggered which occasionally will deliver the very thing a BPD sufferer fears, the abandonment.

8. Unhealthy and unadaptive self-perceptions are also frequently found in borderline personality since they emerge in the first years of life. When love, understanding, affection, and bonding are missing in the parent-child relationship, these unhelpful and critique types of self-perceptions will come along.

9. Also as a consequence of the unsupported home environment, young adults will have a tendency to recurrently look back into their past. This tendency stems from a self-protecting mechanism of the brain which frequently reiterates past memories in order to protect the individual from present challenges. However this strategy reinforces the past fears instead of providing a real solution.

But the most important thing you need to remain with from this article is that Borderline Personality Disorder and its associated symptoms are treatable today if specific steps and new mentalities are accepted and implemented in everyday life.

More here about Borderline Symptoms!

And by the way I have put together a free ebook with the most essential things you need to know about Borderline Personality disorder and its associated symptoms, as well as with a number of quick and efficient tips and strategies to help you ease your emotional pain and relationship issues, whether you are the sufferer, your child, or your spouse/partner: "Surviving The Hellhole"!

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Borderline Personality Disorder - Beyond Managing the Symptoms - Having a Great Life!

Long gone are the dark days of suffering in isolation from the symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Many of us have worked hard through recovery and are now leading productive, happy lives with meaningful relationships. We have careers we love, a strong sense of self, and stable emotional regulation. Even though Borderline Personality Disorder is a relatively new diagnosis, with even newer treatment options, those of us who have accepted our ailment and worked hard at recovery are now beyond just managing the symptoms-we are living wonderful lives.

Remember those days not long ago when a diagnosis of cancer meant certain death? We no longer think in those terms for cancer. Today, most cancer patients successfully undergo treatment and get on with life. The same is becoming true about Borderline Personality Disorder. Though once considered a virtual death sentence, a diagnosis today can lead to entering into effective treatment and getting on with living a meaningful life.

We are finding that our recovery is worked in steps:

1. Accepting diagnosis, getting educated and finding treatment.

2. Getting symptoms under control and going into remission.

3. Building relationships, finding meaningful work, knowing and believing in self.

As you may imagine, step three is where the real fun begins, but eventually we all learn to embrace everything about our lives, even the hard parts of the past. But many of us can recall driving a stake in the ground and saying, "this is where it all changes!" the day we figured out what exactly was wrong with us--the day we accepted our diagnosis.

If you are in step two and beginning to get your symptoms under control, there are some things you can begin doing now to lead into step three.

Start getting involved with people, some-where, some how, even if it is only through the mental health community, such as support groups for those with mental illness. You may also find people in church groups or college courses. Take a self-inventory of what you really love and join a club or group of like-minded individuals. This could be anything from a singing to a dog-loving group. People everywhere are trying to find other people to befriend.

If you have been in isolation for an extended period of time, it may seem awkward to be around people at first. You may not know what to do. Here's a tip for you: wherever you go, just serve. Just go to help. Notice other's needs and contribute where you can. This takes the pressure off of you and will really help build your confidence. The old adage, "if you want a friend, be a friend" really does hold true. Just go serve. That's all.

To find meaningful work that makes you feel good about yourself, begin by building on serving in a more organized way. For example, once you've gone to that certain club or group for a little while, volunteer to make the coffee or put up the chairs each time. Start very small and build. Over time, your resilience and confidence will grow and you will be able to do more.

You have been through so much. Be patient with yourself. And know that all you've been through can be used for many good things. Your innate sensitivity will begin to serve you well.

And remember, charity does indeed begin at home. No matter how ill you are when you begin your recovery, you can begin by doing small things for the people you live with. Start today by doing something small for some-one near, without them even knowing it. And don't forget to smile!

Tami Green

To see how I overcame this disorder, including treatment options, visit my website at: http://www.borderlinepersonalitysupport.com

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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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The Main Symptoms and Manifestations of Narcissistic Borderline Personality Disorder

Are you suspecting that you or someone you know suffers from Narcissistic Borderline Personality Disorder?

First let's make a short incursion in these personality disorders separately than we will see how we can tell apart one from the other.

To start with, the specific symptoms and manifestations of BPD consist of emotional instability, unstable relationships which are based on an intense abandonment fear, a deep feeling of emotional void or deep inner emptiness, marked and/or unstable self-identity, episodes of intense fury, potentially self-destructive impulsive behaviors, paranoid ideation in intensely distressing circumstances, and attempts threats or ideation to commit suicide.

The characteristics of narcissistic personality consist of general patterns of grandiosity, intense need for others' admiration, and lack of empathy.

The borderline is shy, timid, and insecure, lacks self-confidence, has a lack or fairly unstable self-identity, dreads the next invalidation, and bursts out into anger when a real or imaginary invalidation occurs. On the other hand, the narcissistic is overly self-confident, profits from others' hard work with no regards to the consequences, doesn't have empathy, starves after god-like admiration from others, and relies on manipulation or any kind of blackmailing to get what he/she wants from others right now.

Also the narcissistic wants exceptional treatment, thinks that he/she is entitled for special privileges without merits, networks only with high status personalities and despises others who are below those standards. Is haughty, does not threat to or ideate over committing suicide, and manifests no overt anti-social behaviors, unlike the borderline personality sufferers.

Narcissistic people put a great deal of effort into maintaining their VIP appearance, manifest attitudinal and verbal contempt to others who are seemingly less important, and are disgustingly grandiose and perfectionists with others.

Interestingly, about 75% of the borderline sufferers are women, while the same percentage is comprised by narcissistic men.

On a general basis, narcissistic borderline personality people will have one personality as staple, the other one giving the specific personality shades of that person.

So what is the way of not mixing up the many details of these personalities in a person who suffers from both?

The best way is to look at the general and most frequent tendencies, and then to identify the details specific for the secondary traits.

In relationships for instance a borderline will leave the impression of insecurity, neediness, instability, and lack of self-confidence, while the narcissistic will send the message that he or she is the one individual who really matters and all the others are ornaments who just work for him/her.

There are a number of other very important things you need to know about borderline personality as well as the other related mental disorders. So kick-start your recovery with my free eBook "Surviving The Borderline Hellhole"!

Narcissistic Borderline Personality Disorder

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Borderline Personality Disorder - 7 Symptoms and What it Is

Borderline Personality Disorder is a particularly distressing condition, because there's no cure for it and there's no drug that can give a 'quick fix.'

Someone suffering acute anxiety or depression does at least have the advantage of taking Klonopin or Xanax to take the edge off their anguish for a while. With Borderline Personality Disorder, the people who suffer from it, mainly women, don't have that luxury.

One to two percent of American adults suffer from this disease, and it's reported by therapists that it's the most common of all the personality disorders that they treat. The reason isn't far to seek.

It seems that the root desire of people with BPD, their sort of 'raison d'etre,' is to find someone to care for them, to nurture them, look after them. A lot of sufferers report an abusive and/or neglected childhood. This illness starts to manifest itself in early adulthood and is less common in older people.

The big problem is that the sufferer goes to the doctor or therapist, thereby finding someone to listen to them. The doctor will prescribe medications and the therapist will do all that's possible to dig down and try to find out why the patient's acting as they do. This is fine, thinks the patient. Someone actually cares about me. So they keep going to the therapist, who may well have given them some 'homework' to do, like writing out all they can remember about their childhood.

They go back to the doctor, who sees no change in them simply because they haven't taken their medications. Why should I? they think, when I have someone to listen to me. In the end, both therapist and doctor become thoroughly fed up with them, and erroneously consider them time-wasters.

When or if they do form relationships, they're extremely intense and they expect the partner to be with them the whole time. If whomever they're with does finally leave them, they consider themselves as having been abandoned and become extremely angry.

Again, like Paranoid Schizophrenia, there are no grey areas in their life. Everything's black or white, good or evil. If they are left alone, they're liable to feel that they don't exist, that they're not real. I'm sure it must be a very alarming feeling.

Following on the heels of this, they become very impulsive, and reckless. For instance, they're likely to drive their car as fast as they possibly can. They often become very promiscuous and engage in drug abuse and drinking. They're also likely to self-mutilate to a greater or lesser degree. Occasionally, if the illness becomes really bad, they may hallucinate and develop paranoia and psychotic thinking. The symptoms of this disease are as follows.

1. They desperately try to avoid abandonment or being left on their own.

2. Because of this, they may develop a slew of very intense, but unstable, relationships.

3. Their self-image varies daily.

4. They're impulsive in at least two of the following areas; sex, spending money, drugs and alcohol, binge eating.

5. They become suicidal, either in fact or gesture.

6. Mood instability. They may become very irritable, anxious, dysphoric, (the opposite of euphoric).

7. Anger problems and fighting.

Drugs that can help are Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, They should help the depression and impulsiveness. Risperidal again can help with depression and the feelings of not being real, and anticonvulsant medications for anger. It's interesting to note that depression will creep in wherever it can

Mike Bond discussing Borderline Personality Disorder. This is a very nasty illness. There appears to be no recovery and there's no cure. Learn a lot more about various mental conditions on Mike's website at [http://www.panattack.com]. Read about his own experiences and don't forget to watch and listen to the video [http://www.panattack.com].

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Borderline Personality Disorder - Beyond Managing the Symptoms - Having a Great Life!

Long gone are the dark days of suffering in isolation from the symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Many of us have worked hard through recovery and are now leading productive, happy lives with meaningful relationships. We have careers we love, a strong sense of self, and stable emotional regulation. Even though Borderline Personality Disorder is a relatively new diagnosis, with even newer treatment options, those of us who have accepted our ailment and worked hard at recovery are now beyond just managing the symptoms-we are living wonderful lives.

Remember those days not long ago when a diagnosis of cancer meant certain death? We no longer think in those terms for cancer. Today, most cancer patients successfully undergo treatment and get on with life. The same is becoming true about Borderline Personality Disorder. Though once considered a virtual death sentence, a diagnosis today can lead to entering into effective treatment and getting on with living a meaningful life.

We are finding that our recovery is worked in steps:

1. Accepting diagnosis, getting educated and finding treatment.

2. Getting symptoms under control and going into remission.

3. Building relationships, finding meaningful work, knowing and believing in self.

As you may imagine, step three is where the real fun begins, but eventually we all learn to embrace everything about our lives, even the hard parts of the past. But many of us can recall driving a stake in the ground and saying, "this is where it all changes!" the day we figured out what exactly was wrong with us--the day we accepted our diagnosis.

If you are in step two and beginning to get your symptoms under control, there are some things you can begin doing now to lead into step three.

Start getting involved with people, some-where, some how, even if it is only through the mental health community, such as support groups for those with mental illness. You may also find people in church groups or college courses. Take a self-inventory of what you really love and join a club or group of like-minded individuals. This could be anything from a singing to a dog-loving group. People everywhere are trying to find other people to befriend.

If you have been in isolation for an extended period of time, it may seem awkward to be around people at first. You may not know what to do. Here's a tip for you: wherever you go, just serve. Just go to help. Notice other's needs and contribute where you can. This takes the pressure off of you and will really help build your confidence. The old adage, "if you want a friend, be a friend" really does hold true. Just go serve. That's all.

To find meaningful work that makes you feel good about yourself, begin by building on serving in a more organized way. For example, once you've gone to that certain club or group for a little while, volunteer to make the coffee or put up the chairs each time. Start very small and build. Over time, your resilience and confidence will grow and you will be able to do more.

You have been through so much. Be patient with yourself. And know that all you've been through can be used for many good things. Your innate sensitivity will begin to serve you well.

And remember, charity does indeed begin at home. No matter how ill you are when you begin your recovery, you can begin by doing small things for the people you live with. Start today by doing something small for some-one near, without them even knowing it. And don't forget to smile!

Tami Green

To see how I overcame this disorder, including treatment options, visit my website at: http://www.borderlinepersonalitysupport.com

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The Main Symptoms and Manifestations of Narcissistic Borderline Personality Disorder

Are you suspecting that you or someone you know suffers from Narcissistic Borderline Personality Disorder?

First let's make a short incursion in these personality disorders separately than we will see how we can tell apart one from the other.

To start with, the specific symptoms and manifestations of BPD consist of emotional instability, unstable relationships which are based on an intense abandonment fear, a deep feeling of emotional void or deep inner emptiness, marked and/or unstable self-identity, episodes of intense fury, potentially self-destructive impulsive behaviors, paranoid ideation in intensely distressing circumstances, and attempts threats or ideation to commit suicide.

The characteristics of narcissistic personality consist of general patterns of grandiosity, intense need for others' admiration, and lack of empathy.

The borderline is shy, timid, and insecure, lacks self-confidence, has a lack or fairly unstable self-identity, dreads the next invalidation, and bursts out into anger when a real or imaginary invalidation occurs. On the other hand, the narcissistic is overly self-confident, profits from others' hard work with no regards to the consequences, doesn't have empathy, starves after god-like admiration from others, and relies on manipulation or any kind of blackmailing to get what he/she wants from others right now.

Also the narcissistic wants exceptional treatment, thinks that he/she is entitled for special privileges without merits, networks only with high status personalities and despises others who are below those standards. Is haughty, does not threat to or ideate over committing suicide, and manifests no overt anti-social behaviors, unlike the borderline personality sufferers.

Narcissistic people put a great deal of effort into maintaining their VIP appearance, manifest attitudinal and verbal contempt to others who are seemingly less important, and are disgustingly grandiose and perfectionists with others.

Interestingly, about 75% of the borderline sufferers are women, while the same percentage is comprised by narcissistic men.

On a general basis, narcissistic borderline personality people will have one personality as staple, the other one giving the specific personality shades of that person.

So what is the way of not mixing up the many details of these personalities in a person who suffers from both?

The best way is to look at the general and most frequent tendencies, and then to identify the details specific for the secondary traits.

In relationships for instance a borderline will leave the impression of insecurity, neediness, instability, and lack of self-confidence, while the narcissistic will send the message that he or she is the one individual who really matters and all the others are ornaments who just work for him/her.

There are a number of other very important things you need to know about borderline personality as well as the other related mental disorders. So kick-start your recovery with my free ebook "Surviving The Borderline Hellhole"!

Narcissistic Borderline Personality Disorder

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Borderline Personality Disorder - 7 Symptoms and What it Is

Borderline Personality Disorder is a particularly distressing condition, because there's no cure for it and there's no drug that can give a 'quick fix.'

Someone suffering acute anxiety or depression does at least have the advantage of taking Klonopin or Xanax to take the edge off their anguish for a while. With Borderline Personality Disorder, the people who suffer from it, mainly women, don't have that luxury.

One to two percent of American adults suffer from this disease, and it's reported by therapists that it's the most common of all the personality disorders that they treat. The reason isn't far to seek.

It seems that the root desire of people with BPD, their sort of 'raison d'etre,' is to find someone to care for them, to nurture them, look after them. A lot of sufferers report an abusive and/or neglected childhood. This illness starts to manifest itself in early adulthood and is less common in older people.

The big problem is that the sufferer goes to the doctor or therapist, thereby finding someone to listen to them. The doctor will prescribe medications and the therapist will do all that's possible to dig down and try to find out why the patient's acting as they do. This is fine, thinks the patient. Someone actually cares about me. So they keep going to the therapist, who may well have given them some 'homework' to do, like writing out all they can remember about their childhood.

They go back to the doctor, who sees no change in them simply because they haven't taken their medications. Why should I? they think, when I have someone to listen to me. In the end, both therapist and doctor become thoroughly fed up with them, and erroneously consider them time-wasters.

When or if they do form relationships, they're extremely intense and they expect the partner to be with them the whole time. If whomever they're with does finally leave them, they consider themselves as having been abandoned and become extremely angry.

Again, like Paranoid Schizophrenia, there are no grey areas in their life. Everything's black or white, good or evil. If they are left alone, they're liable to feel that they don't exist, that they're not real. I'm sure it must be a very alarming feeling.

Following on the heels of this, they become very impulsive, and reckless. For instance, they're likely to drive their car as fast as they possibly can. They often become very promiscuous and engage in drug abuse and drinking. They're also likely to self-mutilate to a greater or lesser degree. Occasionally, if the illness becomes really bad, they may hallucinate and develop paranoia and psychotic thinking. The symptoms of this disease are as follows.

1. They desperately try to avoid abandonment or being left on their own.

2. Because of this, they may develop a slew of very intense, but unstable, relationships.

3. Their self-image varies daily.

4. They're impulsive in at least two of the following areas; sex, spending money, drugs and alcohol, binge eating.

5. They become suicidal, either in fact or gesture.

6. Mood instability. They may become very irritable, anxious, dysphoric, (the opposite of euphoric).

7. Anger problems and fighting.

Drugs that can help are Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, They should help the depression and impulsiveness. Risperidal again can help with depression and the feelings of not being real, and anticonvulsant medications for anger. It's interesting to note that depression will creep in wherever it can

Mike Bond discussing Borderline Personality Disorder. This is a very nasty illness. There appears to be no recovery and there's no cure. Learn a lot more about various mental conditions on Mike's website at [http://www.panattack.com]. Read about his own experiences and don't forget to watch and listen to the video [http://www.panattack.com].

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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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