What is BPD?

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By Ann Appelbaum, M.D. and Frank Yeomans, M.D., Ph.D.

individuals with BPD show great difficulties in controlling
ragefulness; they are unusually impulsive, they fall in and out of love
suddenly; they tend to idealize other people and then abruptly despise
them. A consequence of all this is that they typically look for help
from a therapist and then suddenly quit in terrible disappointment and
anger.

Underneath all these symptoms, therapists began to see in the
borderline condition an inability to tolerate the levels of anxiety,
frustration, rejection and loss that most people are able to put up
with, an inability to soothe and comfort themselves when they become
upset, and an inability to control the impulses toward the expression,
through action, of love and hate that most people are able to hold in
check. And, furthermore, what most defines BPD is great difficulty in
holding on to a stable, consistent sense of one's self: "Who am I?"
these people ask. "My life is in chaos; sometimes I feel like I can do
anything - I feel so incompetent,
helpless and loathsome. I'm a lot of different people instead of being
just one person."

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I know three people with this and it can be hard on the emotions of that person if this is not controlled.

Posts : 644 Join date : 2008-07-18

I have bipolar II and bpd. The symptoms are so similar it is hard to tell which is which. I couldn't make it without my mood stabilizers. I still have flareups and misunderstand ppl but I think my moods are better than they used to be.