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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Am not sure why a lot of PPs are insisting BPD occurs only in individuals who are abused.  This is not correct, although there is significant overlap.

It is a disorder of emotional dysregulation, and there is evidence via PET scans that there are abnormalities in the function of the amygdala, thought to be the seat of the emotions.

In addition, BPD individuals tend to have a highly refined ability to read faces and, thus, pick up the slightest hint of negative emotion, which they take to heart.  One way of thinking of BPD individuals is that they are at the extreme end of the emotionally thin skinned.

Yes, they are very difficult to deal with, but they also suffer greatly from their emotional neediness and often seek solace in drugs and alcohol.  When they become overwhelmed by all the emotional input they are constantly taking in they often contemplate suicide.  [b]Their life is hell[/b].  [/quote]

I realize this may make me sound cold, but frankly, I don't care. You know what's hell? Being the target of someone with BPD when they unleash. When they not only attack you, but they go around telling others that the non-BPD person is the "crazy" one, manipulating them and others, compulsively lying, concocting their own web of revisionist history.

BPDs seem to persist because they are in denial, and what they're doing seems "right" or "natural" for them, in their warped non-sensical way. If they experience hell, it is a hell of their own creation. I can have empathy for someone who is really, truly, actively working on themselves and changed, but having been the target of someone with BPD, having supported them only to be further abused by them, I could not care less.  [/quote]

Agreed, PP, at some point you have no choice but to do what's necessary to care for yourself.

Your description of the way people with BPD persist in their denial points to the likely origin of the "borderline" concept as being on the border of psychosis.  A very difficult condition to treat.[/quote]

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