Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Men With Borderline Personality Disorder Show Common Behaviors Loved Ones Will Recognize

By George Sullivan


There are all kinds of people in the world, and they all have personalities. Some people are more difficult than others. It can be a mental health issue or just a tendency to be thoughtless and self-serving. People with mental disorders don't always process their thoughts in healthy ways. If you have a loved one who craves approval for himself, but has no empathy for others and won't take responsibility for his own actions, he may fall into the category of men with borderline personality disorder, BPD.

Some with mental health issues are highly functioning. Unless you know them intimately, you would never guess they have a problem. Others, at the other end of the spectrum, can barely function without medication, and you know when they're in crisis. Males with BPD are no exception. In order to understand the loved one, you have to know the signs that the experts look for.

People with BPD have low self-esteem. It often manifests itself as craving approval and attention from everyone around them. They might copy others' behaviors. BPD sufferers do this because they don't have sufficient faith, or trust, in themselves. Although they don't always act like it, these individuals have deep feelings of inferiority. They don't think independently. Instead the things they say and do are the things they believe others want to see and hear.

Individuals who have BPD lack empathy. They have trouble seeing and caring about the wants and needs of others. BPD sufferers don't understand how their behavior impacts those around them. There is not a fully developed sense of awareness in them. It should not be surprising that relationships are difficult for them to maintain.

Many BPD sufferers repeatedly fall into negative and destructive relationships. Physical and mental abuse is not unusual. Borderlines can be needy and mistrusting to an excessive degree. They may swing from overly close to completely distant and uninvolved. It's not only romantic partners that experience this phenomenon. Friends and family are the victims of it too.

BPD can make people feel intensely anxious, even to the point of panic. Everybody worries and gets anxious about things on occasion, but BPD sufferers carry it to the extreme. They can be hypersensitive to how other people act toward them. These individuals want so badly to be accepted, when they feel threatened, they may lash out in inappropriate ways.

BPD sufferers are terrified of being abandoned or left alone. This can lead them to become intensely jealous and paranoid. They sometimes accuse partners of behavior that has no rational basis. It's not unusual for them to stalk a partner or monitor their comings and goings. Those suffering from BPD may threaten to kill themselves if the partner doesn't comply with their irrational demands.

Uncontrollable anger and mood swings are two hallmarks of the disease. Borderlines blame others for their shortcomings. The disease makes them impulsive and given to risky behaviors. BPD sufferers are four hundred times more likely to commit suicide than the general population.




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