Have you ever known someone in real life with Borderline Personality Disorder?

[MCheetah]

[SolitarySolace]

Yes. My ex. The one who cheated on me after I had convinced my parents to allow me to go to college 3 hours away from my home town just to be closer to her because the school had dorms. The first week of classes and the cheating was obvious. Of course she blamed me for what she did. Claiming it was because I wouldn’t have sex with her. I had no one but her in that area and was lost. Eventually her new guy went to jail and she got back with me for a week because when he got out she got back with him in a heartbeat... that’s when I promised myself I’d never give second chances. That I’d never have a relationship again. It’s been almost 8 years now. She once threatened to go through the fire escape window in my mom's basement and walk a 3 hour drive to get back to get dad's house. All she wanted was sex which I couldn't give her. She would force me to stay on the phone with her all night even if we weren't talking and if the line went dead she's assume I ended the call and get mad at me. She had major abandonment issues. I did everything for her and she did nothing for me.

[HighlyVolatile]

I had an ex long ago who was diagnosed as bipolar, but describing her on here, someone said she sounds more borderline than bipolar. I'm not sure which one she was; she had strong symptoms of both in that diagram contrasting bipolar to borderline.

I also have a couple of those borderline symptoms myself like impulsivity and self-destructive behavior (my drinking) along with a blurry self-image (in my case I often wonder if I'm more Japanese or American now having grown up in both places, for example also mixed) although less so of the others.

[TheSpaceGnome]

People need to stop calling everything a disorder. Neither of those "diagnosis" are backed by actual science.

Everything listed in those images is either normal behavior under specific circumstances, or is the result of someone being stupid.

We keep calling things disorders, because society is currently allergic to insulting people over poor choices or idiotic ideas, while also having the contradictory notion of being simultaniously married with the idea that emotions are bad.

Strong emotions are good, being very upset when things suck is normal, and self harming or losing touch with reality is being stupid.

Stupidity, is in fact, a real thing, and people just ignore that and say "no, not my friend/kid/SO/etc. they can't be stupid, they must be sick, if they get the right medication, they will be fine".

Sorry but no, you can't cure stupidity with a drug.

[MCheetah]

I disagree with you. You should watch the video. It clears up a lot of these misconceptions.
Yes, many people like to make excuses for their behavior nowadays or "self diagnose," but it doesn't mean none of these things exist within anyone at all.

[TheSpaceGnome]

I don't agree, the methodology used to "diagnose" these "conditions" is based both on cultural subjectivity of how civility and obedience is defined (which should never be a value measured when testing for illness) and tests that are not scientifically viable when held up to the scrutiny of attempting to repeat the results, such as ct scans, magnetic imaging, isolated chemical measurements, or questionaires.

A wild tiger for example, is physically healthy, even if he wants to eat you alive and kills birds for fun, so mental capacity or habits, and even destructive behvioral problems, are not indicitive of a physical disorder.

What it does say, is that the tiger is less intelligent than most humans, as higher intellect creates understanding, and understanding creates empathy. Mind you, even if much smarter, It would still kill and eat other animals because cats literally die on vegetarian diets, but it wouldn't be sadistic, or take huge uneeded risks when doing so.

[TheSpaceGnome]

It is however important to remember that without deviation from the norm, evolution does not occur.

[TheSpaceGnome]

So while we shun our own evolution for safety reasons, it's best to not judge the tiger and let it be.

[melanieeeB]

Yeah two people, one was the little sister of an old friend and I had never a problem with her and the other was a friend of mine... we were friends for 13 years until I couldn't bare her anymore and she had more then just Borderline... it was just awful and got worse with time.

[Crepe_tart]

Yep, he was my friend and it kinda sucked cause I never noticed until after we graduated highschool. I hope he's okay

[exitseven]

I dated somebody that may of had it. She was abused as a kid by her parents and her older brother did some weird stuff to her. She used to go crazy once in a while. I thought she might have been bi-polar but maybe it was BPD.

[Iron_Man]

Yes it was a disaster and our friendship didn’t last too long. I was mostly a helper for him. He had every kind of diagnosis you could think of in and out of mental institutions but he was always trying to get me in trouble with people a bunch of strangers at sporting events and late night bars making in your window very sarcastic comments trying to get the ball rolling built up controversy

[jimmy2]

I work with a guy who wife had many personalities. Like 5 of them. He told me I say to her come out kids and they each would come out. There were all different one was a slut. Well the slut came out while he was work she went out in Dallas bouncing checks and slutting around screwing anyone who would
Well that got them pretty hot ordeal with Dallas prosecutor.

[worldscolide]

Yes my mother. And I can confirm based on behavior alone that Amber does indeed have it.

[Anonymous]

Me and a friend of mine made the unfortunate mistake of dating one of them. Thankfully, mine didn't last very long. My friend on the other hand had his fake her own pregnancy to destroy his reputation.

[RealMarek]

Married one. Biggest mistake of my life.

[MCheetah]

You Depp'ed up.

[RealMarek]

Lol yes

[douride2]

Oh yes I know a few of those.

[Fuentes]

Nah i stay away from the 5150 behavuour

[JesseJayNeak]

Yes, I know about it