Are u borderline...
September 3rd 2007 08:42
A high 15% of the world population is known to have been diagnosed with this common disorder called borderline personality.
Women are also known to have as much as three times more chance to suffer from it than men…
Some theorists suggest that some of us are born with an innate biological tendency to become borderlines. Also suggested is the influence of the environment if it is a chaotic emotional one.
As again said, nature versus nurture, it seems like both interact and cannot be separated.
Is it genetic or environmental? Or both?
Some of us are born with a predisposition for this disorder that could be activated if growing up in an unstable emotional environment.
The symptoms are vast and sometimes many of them are just part of our normal behavior, but the problems occur when to some extend those symptoms appear to create a dysfunctional behavior.
Borderline people are known as very bright, funny, they seem to attract attention and to be “the life of the party”.
They are also seen as competent and warm.
They do function normally in the society as any one else until a stressful situation, a break up or the loss of a close person, will shattered their defense mechanisms and expose their vulnerability.
On the dark side borderlines are living in a chaotic inner world, with little consistency regarding jobs and relationships in general.
They feel empty, abandoned, with extreme emotions that can go for very high and euphoric to extremely low and dangerously depressed.
They don’t deal well with loneliness, have impulsive behaviors and are hypersensitive.
Borderlines are victims of their own emotions, and find it hard to control them.
They experience periods of “inappropriate, intense and uncontrollable anger” and have a tendency for self destruction and self mutilation.
They live in a world of black and white, with no grey in between; it goes from love to hate in a second, which leaves them extremely confused and emotionally drained.
Other symptoms known are linked to their impulsive behavior that could drive them to excessive spending, eating disorder, heavy gambling, sexual promiscuity, shoplifting, and abuse of alcohol and drugs.
Borderlines have self-identity problems; they do not seem to know who they are and what they want.
It is something that should be taken very seriously; borderlines suffer a lot and if not treated properly suicides attempts seem to become for them the only escape.
As for treatments, the best suggested is to enter psychotherapy with a non-judgmental therapist.
It is a long and hard road to recovery land but positive attitude and consistency will pay at the end.
Women are also known to have as much as three times more chance to suffer from it than men…
Some theorists suggest that some of us are born with an innate biological tendency to become borderlines. Also suggested is the influence of the environment if it is a chaotic emotional one.
As again said, nature versus nurture, it seems like both interact and cannot be separated.
Is it genetic or environmental? Or both?
Some of us are born with a predisposition for this disorder that could be activated if growing up in an unstable emotional environment.
The symptoms are vast and sometimes many of them are just part of our normal behavior, but the problems occur when to some extend those symptoms appear to create a dysfunctional behavior.
Borderline people are known as very bright, funny, they seem to attract attention and to be “the life of the party”.
They are also seen as competent and warm.
They do function normally in the society as any one else until a stressful situation, a break up or the loss of a close person, will shattered their defense mechanisms and expose their vulnerability.
On the dark side borderlines are living in a chaotic inner world, with little consistency regarding jobs and relationships in general.
They feel empty, abandoned, with extreme emotions that can go for very high and euphoric to extremely low and dangerously depressed.
They don’t deal well with loneliness, have impulsive behaviors and are hypersensitive.
Borderlines are victims of their own emotions, and find it hard to control them.
They experience periods of “inappropriate, intense and uncontrollable anger” and have a tendency for self destruction and self mutilation.
Other symptoms known are linked to their impulsive behavior that could drive them to excessive spending, eating disorder, heavy gambling, sexual promiscuity, shoplifting, and abuse of alcohol and drugs.
Borderlines have self-identity problems; they do not seem to know who they are and what they want.
It is something that should be taken very seriously; borderlines suffer a lot and if not treated properly suicides attempts seem to become for them the only escape.
As for treatments, the best suggested is to enter psychotherapy with a non-judgmental therapist.
It is a long and hard road to recovery land but positive attitude and consistency will pay at the end.
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Comment by Harry
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Comment by fred
Autistics have the caracteristic to be antisocial, retreat from reality into a privat world of fantasy, while borderlines actually are quite social, but depend on severe mood swings.
the autistic person is shut in, and demonstrate little interest in others, may sometimes be also quite hostile.
Borderlines are in the contrary in the need of others.