Wednesday, January 16, 2019

How To Recognize Men With Borderline Personality Disorder

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.

One the symptoms of this disease is low self-esteem. You may have noticed this person craving your approval and constant attention. He might try and copy the behavior of the people he surrounds himself with. He does this because he doesn't trust himself. Even though he doesn't act like it, your partner is probably feeling inferior to everybody else. Rather than think for himself, he will do and say things that he believes other people will admire him for.

If this individual suffers from BPD, he most likely lacks empathy. He won't see, or particularly care, about what other people want or need. He will have no regard for how his behavior impacts the people around him. His sense of awareness is underdeveloped. If he has a history of bad relationship experiences, that would be completely normal.

It's not unusual for these types of people to get involved in destructive and negative relationships. Mental and physical abuse is fairly common. Borderlines can be excessively needy and mistrusting. They can go from uncomfortably close to an individual to totally distant. Romantic partners aren't the only ones who experience this. Family and friends are victims of the behavior as well.

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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