How would you explain what borderline personality disorder is to someone who doesn’t have it?
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I said this in a different thread a while ago, but will copy it here:
BPD is an issue which almost always stems from past trauma and is rooted in a very deep foundational fear of abandonment, leading to anxiety, inappropriately extreme emotional interactions with partners, fixating on a singular “favourite person” for a while followed by “splitting” on them when the reality doesn’t match the (impossible) imagined ideal, etc. The person is often very prone to misinterpreting innocuous and innocent things as signals that someone is about to abandon them. Some people with BPD also show traits of narcissism, becoming so fixated on their own emotional priority that they seek appeasement to the detriment of others, or simply don’t intuitively account for anyone else. Think the stereotype “emotional terrorist” girlfriend who will emotionally blackmail a partner by having breakdowns if the partner doesn’t fall in line and do as expected or instructed, doesn’t acknowledge her partner’s feelings because she’s so focussed on her own, etc.
BPD is a highly stigmatised condition, mostly because if unaddressed it ends up being an extremely high risk for emotionally abusing partners. HOWEVER it is also one of few conditions people can genuinely learn to manage and even completely move on from. With help. My best friend has BPD and you would never know it because she’s reached a point of being extremely emotionally self aware and manages things before they even begin.
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