Borderline personality disorder...?
Question:
Answers:
It is a symptom of BPD but one of many. I am a health care professional and based on the information that you have written it does not strike me as border line. It does strike me however as a reactive attachment issue,you may want to check that out. For some reason you are sabotaging your intimate relationships and that most of the time comes from a couple factors. A big one is what you grew up around and saw,and felt. Dig a little deeper and find a good therapist,you'll come out as a new person. Keep me posted on your progress!
No. Borderline Personality Disorder is something far more serious and complex. This, to me, sounds like either the fear of committment or that you are very young.
The main feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image and emotions. People with borderline personality disorder are also usually very impulsive.
Do you meet most or all of these traits/symptoms?:
A person with this disorder will also often exhibit impulsive behaviors and have a majority of the following symptoms:
* Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
* A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation
* Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self
* Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)
* Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior
* Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
* Chronic feelings of emptiness
* Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)
* Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms
Check it out and see if it is close to you.but then go get a professional opinion. If it matches, go see a doc. If it doesn't, go see a doc. Chances are if you feel like something is wrong, some IS WRONG. Good luck.
Please do NOT Google B.P.D., please do NOT read about B.P.D, please do NOT diagnose yourself with B.P.D. When reading the symptoms of any disease you are going to relate to at least one or two no matter what. I’ve had everything from glaucoma , breast cancer, anthrax, AIDs, E-coli, and even African flew and I live in California. I definitely had B.P.D at one point too (I was what you call a hypochondriac). You have to see a therapist in order to find the underlining problem. You’re only going to hurt yourself if you believe and label yourself as something you’re not. Good luck sweet one.
See the movie "Girl, Interrupted"
You sound like a mirror image of it.
Really, watch it. I think it will help.
A hallmark of BPD is lacking introspection. Another marker is always blaming others for EVERYTHING (i.e. no personal responsibility).
What you describe sounds like commitment issues, or as someone else said, that you are young. It doesn't sound like BPD. Borderlines usually lack the self-assessment capacity to realize they are in fact BPD.
More Questions & Answers...