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Can you live a fulfilling life with BPD?
These symptoms can affect every part of your life. Despite the challenges, many people with BPD learn how to cope with the symptoms so they can live fulfilling lives.
Can people with borderline personality disorder improve?
Most people improve considerably, but you may always struggle with some symptoms of borderline personality disorder. You may experience times when your symptoms are better or worse. But treatment can improve your ability to function and help you feel better about yourself.
What’s it like to live with someone with borderline personality disorder?
People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) tend to have major difficulties with relationships, especially with those closest to them. Their wild mood swings, angry outbursts, chronic abandonment fears, and impulsive and irrational behaviors can leave loved ones feeling helpless, abused, and off balance.
Can you live with borderline personality disorder and still have triggers?
When you live with a mental illness, sometimes learning to live with “weird” triggers is part of the deal. This can be especially true when you live with borderline personality disorder (BPD), a mental illness characterized by emotional instability and difficult interpersonal relationships.
What are the symptoms of borderline personality disorder in relationships?
Their wild mood swings, angry outbursts, chronic abandonment fears, and impulsive and irrational behaviors can leave loved ones feeling helpless, abused, and off balance. Partners and family members of people with BPD often describe the relationship as an emotional roller coaster with no end in sight.
Why do people with BPD break up with their partners?
The reason why people with BPD break up with their partners is very simple. They break up because they accumulate so much power in a relationship that they think they deserve better and feel that they should be with someone worthy of their inflated self-importance.
Why is it so hard to break up with a borderline?
Borderline breakups are hard because people with borderline personality disorders tend to swing from one extreme to the other. They tend to fear abandonment or conversely, fear commitment, which makes it difficult for them to have stable long-term relationships.