I recently got asked in anon what the traits/characteristics are in BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder/Emotional Regulation Disorder)
So I decided to make a post instead. I think will be good awareness. Here are the 9 main symptoms:
1. Frantic efforts to avoid, extreme fears, or certain behavior and feelings related to the extreme fear of abandonment, rejection, and/or perceived criticism.
2. Switching between idealization and devaluation of others/splitting
3. Identity disturbance- poor self image, self esteem, uncertainty, self hatred, etc
4. Impulsive behavior that is often self damaging and as an attempt to relieve pain and intense emotions- spending sprees, recklessly drive, binge eat, have promiscuous sex, destroy property, steal, cause fights, take unnecessary risks, substance abuse, etc.
5. Reoccurring suicidal behavior/ideations, threats, gestures, self-harm behavior
6. Rapid cycles of emotions/shifting (from dysregulation)
7. Chronic feelings of emptiness and inadequacy, depressive symptoms
8. Intense anger and/or aggression, difficult to control- acting out and/or acting in
9. Stress/anxiety relates paranoia, dissociation, and psychosis (hallucinations, delusions, catatonia, disordered thinking)
And then even in those there are more than one symptoms. Those are just groups. All depends on how you count it. I usually do separately and explain each one… but I won’t this time.
Then there are HUNDREDS of other symptoms and traits/characteristics, so I’m just stating some of them!! =p Lots of ways to recognize this very complex, and unfortunately highly stigmatized and misunderstood chronic mental disorder of emotional dysregulation+hypersensitivity affecting everything from reactions, thoughts, perceptions, functioning, beliefs, feelings, and many things through everyday life- such as the ability to process things.. One with the disorder may display some or most of these symptoms and/or traits/characteristics, but nothing guaranteed as each person with the disorder is an individual and some may not have the same symptoms as others, as well as it being important not to assume any of these as they are rather a guideline to mental health workers because they are often seen and developed from the disorder and symptoms. Others without it can obviously display some of the characteristics from time to time, but the reasoning, cause, severity, and pattern is different and developed.
(Some of these are symptoms, some of these are traits/characteristics developed from the disorder and symptoms/a response of.)
10. Anxiety
11. Headaches/migraines are common
12. Seizures (lots believe to be related to epilepsy cause of emotional parts of the brain going erratic/rapid and firing off.)
13. Higher nociception (pain tolerence) brain less responsive to pain
14. Distorted eating patterns
15. Obsessive compulsive features (obsessive thinking, instrusive thoughts, “obsessions”, repetition behavior, etc)
16. Attachment (Related to ^)
17. Extreme apathy, boredom, dullness
18. Extreme recklessness
19. Baiting
20. Unstable Relationships as a result
21. “Always” and “Never” statements/relations (related to splitting)
22. Sleep deprivation
23. Childlike aspects-voice changing
24. Childlike aspects-“acting out”
25. Childlike aspects-curiosity
26. Child like aspects- dependency
27. Sarcasm
28. Promiscuity
29. Mimicking/mirroring
30. Flashbacks
31. Nightmares
32. Difficulty processing information
33. Difficulty focusing/poor attention span
34. Consistent change of appearance
35. Certain feelings of fear, negativity, or rejection of authority/people of “high importance” in their mind.
36. Alluring/seductive behavior
37. Extreme need for acceptance
38. “Needing to prove themselves over and over again to others and/or themselves” as the past doesn’t matter, identity is graded on what was done the very day.
39. Self discipline/work orientation as a result of OCD features
40. High IQ/intelligence
41. Creative thinking
42. Studies show able to read others easily from such hypersensitivity, however, often mistaking neutrality as anger probably as a result of symptoms
43. Isolation
44. Defensive
45. Magical thinking
46. Fantasizing
47. Panic attacks
48. Anxiety Attacks
49. Hypersensitivity to caffeine, alcohol, some sugars and foods. Often described as being “allergic” to such things as it causes reactions from hypersensitivity and symptoms.
50. Memory lapses- may be a result of dissociation and/or perception
51. Extreme perfectionism
52. Avoidance
53. Euphoric reactions
54. Detachment
55. Avoidance of eye contact
56. Difficulty transitioning plans, activities, shifts
57. Trouble with awareness
58. Sensitivity to other things and senses- light, sounds, etc- from hypersensitivity
59. Resistance
60. Difficulty with decision making
61. Difficulty completing tasks
62. “Rapid” speech
Ok I’ll stop- so basically just mix up pretty much every single mental disorder, some neurological disorders, and add a lot of special touches.
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