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

By George Sullivan


You are going to meet all kinds of people in your life. Some people are more challenging than others. Sometimes they have mental health issues, and sometimes they are just that self-serving and thoughtless. Processing thoughts in healthy ways is often difficult for individuals with mental disorders. If you're involved with someone who won't take responsibility for what he does, craves your approval, and lacks empathy, he may be one of the men with borderline personality disorder, or BPD.

Some people with mental health disorders function at a very high level. They don't exhibit signs of their issues to the casual observer. There are others who obviously struggle in such a way that most people readily notice it. Men with BPD are no different. If you really want to understand your partner, you have to be aware of the signs that indicate BPD.

Low self-esteem is one of the signs a person is struggling. Those who have low self-esteem often crave attention and approval from the people around them. They may copy the behavior of others. People do this because, at their core, they don't trust themselves. Even though they may not act like it, these individuals really feel inferior to other people. Instead of thinking independently, they say and do the things they think other people want to hear or see.

People who have BPD are not empathetic. They aren't concerned about what other people want or need. These individuals don't have any sense of how the things they do affect the people around them. Their sense of awareness isn't fully developed. It is not a coincidence that they have trouble maintaining healthy relationships.

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.

If your partner has BPD excessive anxiety will be a problem for him. This goes beyond the normal feelings on anxiousness that most people experience on occasion. He might become hypersensitive to the way others act when they are around him. It's easy for him to feel threatened and lash out because of how badly he wants to be accepted.

Men who have BPD are terrified of abandonment and being left alone. You may be the victim of his paranoia and intense jealousy. Borderlines are not above stalking their partners and monitoring their daily activities. Your partner may accuse you of ridiculous things that make no sense or have any basis in reality. He may even threaten to kill himself if you don't do whatever it is that he wants you to do.

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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