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.

People with BPD have low self-esteem. It often manifests itself as craving approval and attention from everyone around them. They might copy others' behaviors. BPD sufferers do this because they don't have sufficient faith, or trust, in themselves. Although they don't always act like it, these individuals have deep feelings of inferiority. They don't think independently. Instead the things they say and do are the things they believe others want to see and hear.

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.

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.

Borderlines can become intensely anxious. They may even panic. Worries and anxiety are common feelings for healthy people. Sufferers of BPD carry the feelings to the extreme. They may be hypersensitive about how others act toward them. Borderlines will lash out when they feel threatened because they want to be accepted so badly.

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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