What do you think of when you hear Borderline Personality Disorder?
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 at
8:48 am
I just want to know what you think right off the top of your hear when you hear "Borderline Personality Disorder". I want to see what the stigma is.
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I think about a roller coaster of giddy highs and crashing, grating lows. I think of traumatizing recurring nightmares. I think of everyone I know becoming a stranger. I think of smashing up things that annoy me in the wrong mood. I think of being mortified of eye contact and public places and people and leaving my house and rejection and failure and dropping out of college and being alone for the rest of my life or killing myself.
And I’d think of other things if I was in my other mood.
to be honest? someone needs to grow up!!! I think borderline personality disorder is a simple diagnosis for someone that doesn’t want to mature, and this diagnosis gives them the out they need to stay childish.
The first thing that comes to my mind is the fact that the person with borderline personality disorder needs to be under the care of a psychiatrist who will be able to prescribe medications to control it. I do not feel that there is any stigma which would be associated with it other than the one that one puts on his or hers self. Once under medical treatment for the borderline personality disorder that person will be able to carry on a normal life style and as I stated previously that person will not have any stigma other than that person displays. If that person is not under the care of a professional in the mental health field they should seek it out in order to minimize the symptoms that they are experiencing.
When i hear it, it makes me think of a power struggle with in ones self as far as conscious goes. They know between right and wrong, yet their need to self gratify over powers all common sense.
Which leads to their ultimate behavior display when things go bad (and they normally always will for this person). Thus leads them to sever guilt trips.
In short they have no self control, and they are more than aware of their short comings, which adds to their depression, its a vicious cycle.
People handle, or don’t hand their life experiences in a way that most think they should, some abuse others, borderlines abuse their selves, unfortunately like all mental illness, they also drag down the ones that love them most. A ticking time bomb would also fit.
Seek God.
I think of needy attention whores. As an above poster said, they need to grow up. They can get therapy for their childhood abuse, but that is no excuse for being jerks. I know this is mean and negative.
I think BPD is an undeserved disorder that stems from unfortunate past experiences and can stunt an individuals personal growth. Unfortunatley, most of those that suffer from said disorder often hurt not only themelves, but as max said, those that care about them as well. I just found out that one of the loves of my life, whom I had to leave (due to sexual promiscuity) was BPD. A difficult connundrum, then – as normal thinking individuals, are we expected to forgive actions that destroy our beliefs and hearts because the BPD individual has a mental disorder? Or should we expect that the individual with such disorder will be mature enough not to involve others? After all, the designation of adult does not rest solely upon action, but upon the acceptance of consequence for said action. As was mentioned by another poster – BPD individuals need to grow up. Childhood trauma, though unfortunate, does NOT afford one the right to remain a child.