There are a lot of bpd people on my discord server. I respect them, I don’t understand what bpd is.
Their speech pattern is normal, their behavior is normal, their EVERYTHING is normal.
Clearly, they’re hiding something over their “normality mask”, but what?
I tried reading some articles about it. No dice – the articles were either very clinical to the point where I understood every third or fourth word, or very “this person basically has mood swings.”
I tried talking with them. Again, no dice – “I have mood swings, basically.”
I tried talking with my neurologist. “They have bad mood swings, basically.”
I once tried to kill a dude who was honking for straight 45 minutes (kepprage) while other shit was piling up on me. TBF, that was one occurrence. That didn’t land me in the bpd zone.
Just how bad are their bad their mood swings are?!
What does it take to get to the bpd zone?!
What is this bpd?
Explain like I’m legitimately 5, but with a larger vocabulary.
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So what is a personality disorder? Personality disorders are where the person’s personality greatly differs from the norm in areas such as being able to control their emotions and react to big and small things typically in the same way. So their personality is not able or has great difficulty in adapting to whatever the current situation is.
So did a loved one die or did you drop a spoon you were washing up? You may react the exact same way. It’s the end of the world in both instances. Now, yes, people flip out from time to time over small things due to a build up. This isn’t the case in a person with a personality disorder and they can and will flip out over something small quite a lot even if everything was going swimmingly 2 minutes earlier.
Borderline Personality Disorder takes that and multiplies it by like 100. A person with BPD has a lot of fears around things like being abandoned but are usually the cause of being abandoned, not just through other people being unable to handle them but because they will actively push others away and then have a break down over being abandoned. It quite often becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
During their emotional outbreaks they actively engage in self harm and other destructive behaviours such as drug taking.
Their views of reality are usually quite different from those around them to the extent that their recollection of events is entirely different than others who also experienced them with them.
Outcomes are usually not good. People with BPD quite generally end up abandoned by their family and friends. It’s not uncommon for them to abuse their partners and children. Children of people with BPD quite often grow up themselves with many psychological issues such as anxiety and others that you see in abused children.
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