How do you make someone with BPD understand?
The following 9 strategies can help you support a person with BPD:
- Learn about BPD.
- Show confidence and respect.
- Be trustworthy.
- Manage conflict with attachment.
- Encourage Professional Help.
- Identify strengths.
- Have fun together.
- Take suicide seriously.
What it feels like to live with BPD?
Living with borderline personality disorder (BPD) poses some challenges. Intense emotional pain and feelings of emptiness, desperation, anger, hopelessness, and loneliness are common. These symptoms can affect every part of your life.
How to deal with a person with borderline personality disorder?
Learn About the Illness. Borderline personality disorder can be a confusing diagnosis,and there are many misconceptions about what people with BPD experience.
What do you need to know about borderline personality disorder?
Diagnosing Borderline Personality Disorder Intense mood swings and sensitivity to rejection. People with Borderline Personality Disorder tend to have extreme mood swings, going from happy to suicidal to angry and back to happy Distorted ego and troubled friendships. BPD sufferers struggle with an unstable self-image. Black and white thinking, “playing games,” and splitting.
What are the early signs of borderline personality disorder?
Common borderline personality disorder symptoms include: Powerful emotions that change quickly and often. Episodic anxiety and depression. Self-harming and self-mutilation (i.e. cutting)
What triggers a person with borderline personality disorder?
The most common BPD triggers are relationship triggers or interpersonal distress. Many people with BPD experience intense fear and anger, impulsive behavior, self-harm, and even suicidality in the wake of relationship events that make them feel either rejected, criticized, or abandoned.