What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
When you behave abnormally, and you are impulsive and not stable at all, you feel you are worthless, and you can’t handle interpersonal relations well, you are having Borderline Personality Disorder.
If you have this ailment, you get too much angry, or you are in a depression.
Before we get to the symptoms, let us know what causes it. Still not clearly unknown but it is guessed it is both the genetic factors along with environmental factors that make this happens. Once twins were studied upon, and it was found out that it could be genetic too. You become aggressive at times. It generally happens in the adolescence when the body is going under many hormonal and other changes too. There are no flexible patterns of the maladaptive experiences that you go through inside you. But the fact is it should be treated in the very early stages. Now before treating, you need to be diagnosed, and so you need to know the symptoms.
1) The sense of identity is disturbed badly
You are unable to keep your major things which were your identity. You tend to lose your core values and standard of your life. You are no more good in commitments nor can you maintain relationships well anymore. There is dysregulation in emotions, and you are depressed and anxious. There is a negative impact on everything you feel.
2) Concerns that you will be abandoned
You feel abandoned, and there is a feeling that people don’t desire you. You are insecure about your position, and you feel left behind. You are losing people from your life is what you think that time. You are in distress and disconnected from everything. You feel as if you are a third person, and no one is interested in your whereabouts. You are at a fear of rejection.
3) Splitting away
You feel you are getting separated from your near and dear ones. All black and white thought or void thoughts come to your mind. You assume yourself to be a big failure, and the negative thoughts run in your mind all the time. You are at times void. You feel unstable in relationships, and you feel they will soon leave you. You undergo intense emotional behaviors.
4) Emotional outbursts
There are intense outbursts out of emotions. At times, you keep on crying without any reason. You just cry and feel left out. You don’t want to talk about it either. You can’t control your feelings. You at times, also shout at people. When you are too much frustrated, you seem to lose control over yourself and just eject your anger by either crying or being angry or throwing things and shouting.
5) Chaos
Your relationship doesn’t go well anymore. You are disturbed, and you feel like you can’t take it anymore. You are in the fear of breakup, and that makes you spoil the situation even more. There is no stability, and you doubt your partner. You fight with him, and you can’t keep calm and solve it. You just ruin it unknowingly.
6) Interpersonal relations are low
You have lost your self-esteem, and you feel drained. You assume yourself as worthless and you blame yourself for something in which you have no link too. You are at a constant guilt of some event where you were not involved or were at fault. Your self-confidence falls, and you know your life is of no use anymore.
7) Self-damaging attitude
Wanting to end up with life and going for suicide or harming yourself. You indulge yourself in substance abuse and play games which can put our life at risk. You become too much alcoholic, and you also smoke and involve yourself in every other activity that harms you. You don’t want to live anymore and look for ways to suicide. You do life-taking tasks and risky activities. It can also be an attempt to escape from the surroundings and people around you. But your life is no joke, and whatever be the reason, you should value it.
8) Dissociation
You want to be detached from your surroundings. This tends to bring you even more down, and you feel low and get irritated very quickly. When you are much stressed, and you want to take control of your situations but you fail you tend to cut yourself from the rest of the world. You may daydream while class is going on or you can be in some other world while you are driving. At times, it can be very dangerous. This unconscious state can even cause death by any accident. You can get into trauma, too.
9) Cognition
You can’t focus and concentrate on anything. You can’t give your full attention to the work you are presently doing. You go out of the zone where there are more people. You keep on thinking about something that has hurt you before. There are emotional and unwanted impulses.
Well, there are many abnormalities in the brain which can cause this. Some of them are:
1) Hippo-campus.
It is smaller in the persons who are having the disease of BPD.
2) Amygdala.
Not just small comparatively but is also very active in the people who are having BPD. You always have negative forms of thoughts and images in your mind.
There are also childhood factors that have led to this BPD.
If a child is being abused physically or sexually, she can run a risk of this disease. Maltreatment or being separated from someone they love causes them even more upset, and they are affected adversely. If they face something which is very harsh, they can later be under the category of such patients. A child needs care and love. They are to be nourished. If they see something which they have never before or not expected to, they can later be affected by any mental disorder.
You can have mood swings and be whimsical. But all you need is to have the courage and open up to your parents or near and dear ones to seek help. You need to go to a psychologist and have a daily checkup done and be under medication. Soon, you can have a normal life that every person seeks to have.
