Are you this person ?

Jul 28, 2004 16:19

Borderline Personality

People with borderline personality, most of whom are women, are unstable in their self-image, moods behavior, and interpersonal relationships which are often stormy and intense . Borderline personality becomes evident in early adulthood, but prevalence diminishes with age. People with a borderline personality have often been deprived of adequate care during childhood. Consequently they feel empty, angry, and deserving of nuturing.
When people with borderline personality feel care for, they appear lonely and waiflike, often needing help for depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, and past mistreatment. However, when they fear abandonment by a caring person, their moods swift dramatically. They frequently show inappropriate and intense anger, accompanied by extreme changes in their view of the world, themselves, and others - shifting from black to white, hated to loved, or vice versa, but never to neutral. Pppl with a borderline personality who feel alone of abandoned may wonder whether they actually exist, that is they don't feel real. They become desperately impulsive engaging in reckless permiscuity or substance abuse. At tymes they're soo out ot touch with reality that they have brief episodes of psychotic thinkin, paranoia and hallucinations.
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