Borderline or Emotionally Unstable
Personality Disorder
Have you, or somebody you know, been diagnosed with BPD or EUPD?
Or do you suspect you might fit the criteria?
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Ok, let's talk about what you need to know.
What is it??
Borderline PD is a mental health diagnosis categorised by difficulty in regulating emotions, fear of rejection/abandonment, chronic feelings of emptiness, and generally feeling both too much for people and not good enough all at the same time.
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It can cause people to experience suicidical thinking, lead to addiction struggles, self-harming, difficulties in maintaining relationships, anxiety, depression, anger...
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I've heard people describe it as living without a layer of skin, everything is rubbing directly on raw nerve endings.
What causes it?
Short answer... trauma.
Long-term, cumulative trauma throughout childhood and adolescence.
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Long answer, it's complicated. It's a mix of a child's natural predisposition combined with adverse childhood events.
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The important take away from this though, is that having BPD isn't a personality flaw. It was a survival strategy.
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For reasons, your childhood did not feel safe (physically and/or emotionally) and your mind learnt strategies to survive that. The problem now, is that those strategies might be getting in the way of you truly living.