What We Are Learning About Brain Biology and Borderline Personality Disorder

Imagine growing up never allowed boundaries but you must treat everyone else's boundaries with the utmost respect. Now your borderline (and it's all your fault.)

Therapy is very important to help manage BPD but sadly most of us cannot afford therapy and struggle with this disorder on our own.

I'm a borderline and I feel like I feel pain in my brain all the time. I'm exhausted and have been for 67 years. I try so hard to gain peace and stop my pain. It works for about 3 seconds. I would love to feel stable for one day. I have never been able to .Stress sends me into the twilight zone

Parents that do not talk, that do not express feelings, that do not process with their children and spouse what they are experiencing, that do not help children to learn how to cope with upsets, to know it is okay to be upset and that there are ways to work through the upset, make it very difficult for a child to learn emotional self-regulation. The child is left on his own to deal with the ups and downs of life in the home and outside of it. The child is alone inside his own head, confused and scared. Is it any wonder that rumination is the only tool available to the child? The child dialogues with himself in a desperate attempt to understand the world and to know how to react. It is the only avenue open and becomes hard wired as a way to cope. But the child is not capable of analyzing what he doesn't even understand and starts to run the same tape over and over: "Something is wrong with me; something is wrong with me." Pretty soon something is wrong with the kid. This is a kid without a basic tool kid for operating in the world. Every encounter is another time the recording is pushed: something is wrong with me and oh, how it hurts. Panic, run, repeat.

Whoever is reading this, please know: there’s no replacement for therapy. If I could “think” my way out of this problem, I would have by now. Lots of smart, successful people seek out therapy! Get help and get help and get help. Fight your ass off against this thing. Do the assignments from your therapist. On your own? Work on self-love, stress reduction, meditation and look for a hobby. Use the resources available. BPD is treatable!!! 🥰 A better life is possible for us all.

I was diagnosed 7 years ago and refused to accept it. I already had enough 'labels'. Anorexic, alcoholic, drug addict, self-harm, suicide attempts..... It explains all my problems. I feel raw, emotionally. Extremely sensitive and yes use facial expressions as my guide

When will the day come when BPD isn't looked at as a disorder but that of one who has acute sensitivity issues based on childhood trauma? When will those who suffer from BPD be seen by society as a sense of belonging and find purposed outlets for this disorder? Where art and mental freedom has the ability to create not chaos but wonderous spontaneity? BPDs tend to be sympathetic and caring. They try the hardest to find the silver lining in a very harsh world. Maybe BPDs need to be looked at differently.

We definitely notice emotions that those people don't want to acknowledge.

Thank you. As a Dr. of Neuroscience just diagnosed with BPD myself, this was very interesting <3

Very nice. Do people with BPD always feel that people don’t like them instantly ? And don’t know why? What about the feeling of always being not good enough. And of course fear of abandonment.

I'm diagnosed BPD for 30 years now (high functioning, schizoid type (no sexual relations, no intimate relationships currently), checkers type OCD, Bipolar, Depression with Psychotic features and clinical depression. OCD showed up in my life suddenly out of nowhere as checkers OCD, caught me by suprise, this mental hell went on for about 6 months, got therapy and meds. I challenged my symptoms and then it went away. Some mental illness are transient and temporary, one/off or intermittent. Some are long term and some are life long. My bio father has schizophrenia. My daughter, BPD. My son, ADHD. Disorders are rampant in my gene pool. I've experienced my BPD as certain symptoms showing up depending on what stage of life I'm in at the time. Self cutting/overdosing, hospitalizations, reckless indiscriminate sex with strangers, job hopping, frequent moves, substance abuse, reckless driving, gambling etc happened earlier in my youth. The gambling, job hopping, alot less frequent now. Now I'm more self isolated, trying to be more long term stable and avoid sex and intimacy, walking the straight and narrow path, in therapy and on meds lol I was a quiet BPD when I had no other choice, no outlet for my built up emotions. I repress, suppress to cope, to be able to function and be somewhat normal and stable.

I'm 45 and I've suffered with untreated BPD my entire life. I've been homeless twice. I've attempted suicide multiple times (I've OD's on medications half a dozen times, and I've severed veins on the inside of both my elbows twice and had surgery to reconnect them). I was first diagnosed over twenty years ago when I tried to join the Army, but was discharged on medical grounds (my BPD dxd). I'm divorced and have no connection with my son, who is 22 years old (haven't seen him since he was 7 - he's also extremely autistic, Asperger's syndrome and mild retardation). I haven't worked since I was 24. I live on SSI/SSDI. I encounter extreme stigma and biases because of my disability. Because I am poor, I cannot access adequate treatment. I can't stabilize long enough for any treatment to be effective (for example, in a couple months I'm about to become homeless again, and I'm moving to another State). The only thing that keeps me going is the knowledge that technology will some day fix all this.

wow. I was diagnosed last June and I have questioned it but the first chart with the circles, I searched up neurosis and it describes me perfectly. I have helped it a lot on my own but professional help is definitely something I crave.

Thanks for doing these researches for us

This was very interesting and informative. Thank you!

Excellent and clear presentation, very helpful. Bravo!!!!

I slept on the floor holding my mother's hand for 12 years because everyday of my life she told me I'M LEAVING. everyday of my life my sister beat the hell out of me until I fought back. She still has 4 long scars across her chest from my fingernails. Sitting on my chest punching me in the face and I got 1 arm free.

Best analysis I have heard of.

Wonderful insight given into the Neuropsychology of BPD.. 🤞👍🌹

I believe that psychiatrists are the only ones that can really understand BPD fully as it is a neurological disorder caused by childhood trauma