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The part I don't understand is how do they think other people do it?  Do they really think they've been dealt a crap hand and everyone in their life is a horrible human out to get them?  Do they not realize that most people are not estranged from all their family members and long-time friends?

That's the deal with the borderline in my life and I just don't understand how she doesn't see that there's a problem.[/quote]

You also don't understand that their reality is different than yours.  They don't/can't see things the same way as someone without the disorder. Their brains don't work the same way.

I wonder if some are thinking they know people with borderline personality disorder when the actual problem is something else.  Bipolar, severe depression, sociopathy even.

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That's what I think too. You people are describing sociopaths and narcissists and calling them BPDs.[/quote]

Nope. A common trait of BPD is the vascillating between idealization and demonizing of people around them. Narcissists are, well, narcissistic pretty much all the time. The real difficulty with BPD is that they swing between being kind and cruel, rapidly and irrationally, praising and attacking people whom they have relationships with (not necessarily romantic, but often familial). It's like you don't know which person you're going to run into, because the BPD person hasn't decided what their needs are with that person on that day. The person I know with BPD has no idea how mentally, emotionally abusive they are, and would be in denial to think they are truly hurting anyone - narcissists will often see the hurt, they just don't care - people with BPD don't even realize it. [/quote]

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