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Would you date someone who has borderline personality disorder?
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Would you date someone who has borderline personality disorder????? Why or why not????? Here is a explanation of BPD, if you are not familiar.
The main feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image and emotions. People with borderline personality disorder are also usually very impulsive.
The pattern is present in a variety of settings (e.g., not just at work or home) and often is accompanied by a similar lability (fluctuating back and forth, sometimes in a quick manner) in a person’s emotions and feelings. Relationships and the person’s emotion may often be characterized as being shallow.
A person with this disorder will also often exhibit impulsive behaviors and have a majority of the following symptoms:
-Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
-A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation
-Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self
-Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)
-Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior
-Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
-Chronic feelings of emptiness
-Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)
-Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms
The main feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image and emotions. People with borderline personality disorder are also usually very impulsive.
The pattern is present in a variety of settings (e.g., not just at work or home) and often is accompanied by a similar lability (fluctuating back and forth, sometimes in a quick manner) in a person’s emotions and feelings. Relationships and the person’s emotion may often be characterized as being shallow.
A person with this disorder will also often exhibit impulsive behaviors and have a majority of the following symptoms:
-Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
-A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation
-Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self
-Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)
-Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior
-Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
-Chronic feelings of emptiness
-Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)
-Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms
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Do not date. That is just asking for trouble. You will have entanglements that will complicate your life and you can not help or change this person. That is for professionals.
The hard part sometimes is recognizing this. Since you have, run (not walk) away from it.
The hard part sometimes is recognizing this. Since you have, run (not walk) away from it.
Answer Date: 07:19am 03/31/08
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I will never suggest anyone to date a person with such behavour and and BPD. I have seen a character like the same and he makes his wife happy for a given point of time and then in a short moment she will be a tears. Such persond would not only bring mental agony to you but also to deep depression in some part of life. This is like inviting a bull to hit you with his sharp horns.
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Answer Date: 07:59am 03/31/08
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maybe if we r friends first so i can figure him out & see how can i help him
Answer Date: 08:54am 03/31/08
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It all depends on how much you really care about this person. If you feel that you can handle being in a relationship with them and if you feel that you can help them, by all means, go for it. They need someone to love them and to be there for them. But if you don't think you can handle it, then don't. Pray for them instead that they will find the love and the help that they need.
Answer Date: 01:19pm 03/31/08
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Of course not they could end up making your life miserable don't make this mistake so early in your life they could be wife beaters, drug addicts, cheaters, controling you name it!!!!
Answer Date: 05:07pm 04/08/08
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I can't believe how many people said "stay and help him". Any person with a personality disorder cannot be fixed. They are pathological. The best trained therapists in the world cannot fix these people. The disorder is their personality. What is your personality? It is WHO YOU ARE. Can anyone change who they are? They can improve it, but not change it. And who they are is SICK. Being involved with someone who has any personality disorder (anti-social, borderline, narcissictic, paranoid, etc.) is just bringing ...
Answer Date: 07:07am 04/09/08
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How severe is this person's condition? Are they on medication and receiving psychiatric care for this condition? What is special about this person that interests you, so that you want to date him? Untreated and severe, this condition could be destructive, not only to the individual but to you, as well.
My husband has bipolar disorder, and the symptoms of personality disorder are pretty close. He takes 3 different meds, sees a psychiatrist and a coun...
My husband has bipolar disorder, and the symptoms of personality disorder are pretty close. He takes 3 different meds, sees a psychiatrist and a coun...
Answer Date: 01:07am 04/16/08
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