What is Borderline Personality Disorder? Do I have BPD?

In today’s interesting medical case, I start with a hypothetical presentation of a “friend” with Borderline Personality Disorder. After discussing the symptoms, we’ll explore what causes BPD and the available treatments. Please don’t self-Diagnose yourself or a friend with BPD. Understand the Disorder, so you can help your loved ones suffering with this Disorder.

Topics:
a) Symptoms of BPD: see if You or your friend have symptoms of BPD?
b) What causes the disorder: Not only serotonin but also genetics and environmental factors matter.
c) Treatments: Drugs are not useful. Psychotherapy is the current best treatment. What is STEPPS?

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[anoone]

I relate to all of these symptoms way too much, but still feel like I could be faking it, mind making it up ect, but I've struggled with self acceptance before, I'm getting a phyciatrist soon. I fit all criteria and It affects me every day

[Jinx-glph]

I have BPD and I need to say this. We are people like others but we don't have "emotional skin" that protecting other people. We need support and I know its difficult with us. But also we are very loving and we can help others. We just cant help our selfs. We fight with our selfs every day. Me personally I wish to be normal but hard trauma from my childhood make me this way. Be happy for your normal life someone would give everything for life you have. Support others when they needs you.

[flapawangatang]

There's no worse feeling than getting abandoned by someone you loved dearly. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone who's also trying to recover from BPD

[jonseon]

I have an online friend who is just like that description. Sometimes she'll be around every day, sometimes she will disappear off social media for weeks. Sometimes very happy to chat, other times calling herself ugly and posting other self deprecating things. Sometimes getting overly angry at something in the news. Sometimes accusing her (Youtube) fans of being trolls for little reason.

And yes she has threatened suicide more than once.

[austinsmith]

I’ve never related to something so much

[codykueker]

I was recently diagnosed with trauma-related disorder. But every counselor I speak to has skirted around BPD with me. I may have to ask straight-up to be assessed for it. The major thing for me is that unstable sense of identity, constantly seeking what and how other people think I am, so I can have some direction in life; it’s so difficult for me to be able to work inward out.

[amazinggrace]

Just so you know, as I have never seen this included in a video, I have epilepsy. Epilepsy makes it much more likely you will get BPD because both involve the same neurotransmitter; serotonin. I also have a family history of it and had an extremely abusive mother and an alcoholic father. However, I'm doing much better now without therapy or medications. Some of my epileptic meds are crossover medications for mental illness and may be helping, but I learned on my own to get a lot of symtoms under control. The worst I still deal with is fear of abandonment because of the accumulation of traumatic relationship breaks I've had. I was diagnosed with minor PTSD over these traumas. However, don't think there is no hope. The more I grow the more I understand and learn to control my BPD.

[sophiafern]

BPD is not a mood disorder, it's a personality disorder more closely related to antisocial personality disorder than depression. This is an important distinction, since while many mood disorders like clinical depression and anxiety disorders can be effectively treated with medications, borderline personality disorder cannot be treated with medications (although it can help with symptom management).

[ariellovesbroadway]

Please don’t use this to self diagnose, as someone who is diagnosed this disorder is absolutely a monster. I have lost so many people I loved.

[shanansavoy]

Bpd is not a mood disorder it is a personality disorder

[arayahope]

I think I have bpd but I dont want to tell anyone because whenever I try to express my problems to my mom she says it is just puberty. I have been dealing with depression and anxiety by myself since I was nine and I am so tired of taking care of mental health problems on my own.

[aabb]

Im diagnosed with ptsd and heavy depression, yet.. ive been knowing before those diagnoses that i had all symptomps of bpd but never brought it up whenever im on therapy. I think it will get treaten along the trauma and depression, i hope it will because if my parents knew i had bpd there would be more drama going on than there is now. Plus, bpd is seen as soemthing very bad. And the people who have it are seen like they arent human, id rather want to ignore it if i have the disorder.

[lyanneroberts]

Can this be caused by trauma. When I was 11 my mum killed herself infront of me and all the attention went to the older children and I was ignored. A year later my dad said no wonder she killed herself dealing with you. I was then groomed at 14 and the police made me feel like a prosititue and my family threw me in my room and never let me speak about it. My sister's 40 year old boyfriend then entered the family and sexually assaulted me at 16 to 18 and I was open with it and told them and their response was you're toxic. I learned to shut it all in and I now struggle with occasional self harm and when I get angry I hit myself in the face. My feelings of suicide have gone from scared to a comftable feeling. Every day I don't know if I'm going to wake up happy or numb or depressed angry. It's exhausting and I don't know how to even be diagnosed since I'm terrified no one will listen like my family.

[fellowhuman]

I think my sense of identity is so fucked up that I can’t tell whether or not I relate to these symptoms, or I’m making shit up, it’s all in my head, and I just want an explanation or excuse as to why I destroy relationships, have outbursts, act impulsively, etc.

[arandomcatheehee]

As someone with BPD, DBT has helped me so much!! I've learned how to control my negative emotions, I can stop and think more rationally about people's behaviors, and I've become much better at communicating my feelings and concerns. It makes me really annoyed when I see people say people with BPD can't "get better" (not as in cure, as in improve) or people with BPD saying DBT never works, ever.

[Bill_Cipher]

0:01
Me: "Okay, first of all, there's no need for an onslaught of personal attacks, but go on."

[abacaxifucsia]

Very informative and nice animations. Look like something that would appear on Ted-Ed.

[mahmudakhatun]

I had some symptoms of this but don't know why the last few months i am extremely suffering high mood swings. i get triggered by a very small thing.i feel some weird emptiness in me like something is missing but don't know what. i am absolutely normal now then burst with anger, suddenly happy but the most strange thing is i really don't know why it's happening. i have no control of myself. not only that my thinking pattern is also changing so quickly. i love my mother the most but sometimes i can't even tolerate her. i yelled at her and feel so bad after sometime. i can't understand myself. i am not the same person all the time like others. i am really confused. but i told my mother about my problem but she never takes it seriously. i cried so many times and told her mom i don't know what is happening to me please help me. BUT she just tells me it is happening because of my age or its just became my nature or habit and you have try to solve this. Then i get really angry why she always kept telling me that i don't. i try but can't do it and it's happening repeatedly. they just irriated and yelled at me and that's it. sometimes i feel shameless to try to tell my mom everytime so i stop it. i know she loves me a lot and i also love her but she is not helping me. SO I STARTED to searh at google and youtube. but i don't think its so helpful cause i should meet a doctor but my mother is not willing to do that. so i decided to go by my own atleast i will be able to know what actually happen to me. i try to understand myself and be a better person. THANK YOU TO READ THIS LONG COMMENT. actually i wanted to tell someone about my situation but there was none to listen to me. now i feel good. thanks.

[jamze]

It happens because the rest of society keeps letting us down. Our higher thinking of wisdom gives us massive rages and disappointment in people who go out of their way to be evil in general. We can sense how someone is just by looking at them. This isn’t delusional or over thinking. We are very sensitive to the external environment and can read things way faster than you think. Even if it’s you being the person out of line!!!!

[Yogurtenjoyer]

Okay, this comes from real experience, that I had with my dispatient friends.