Easiest Way to Descripe BPD

ECHOES · Mar 17, 2012, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by BorderlineBrittany

In your opinions what is the easiest way to explain BPD?

Well, if you mean to others, I don't explain it to anyone. No one would get it. To say that it is about fear of rejection/abandonment, or emotional dysregulation wouldn't help because most people have a "Well, just stop being that way" reaction. To the few who know I'm in therapy, I tell them it is for depression.

To myself, BPD is good as an explanation, as is the sticky at the top of the forum. The diagnosis helped me a lot to understand that I am truly different from some others, like in the intense emotions and all that comes with that. Others feel the same emotions and can cope with them, but with me it's debilitating or I need to act on them, usually some form of running.
There's just so much to BPD.

ava1enzue1a · Mar 19, 2012, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by melissa.recovering

Misunderstood and highly stigmatized

Yes.

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Originally Posted by mgbeers2012

I don't think there is an easy way to describe BPD.

No, there probably isn't. And that's probably the issue at hand here :P

My own post nabbed from another thread...

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Originally Posted by ava1enzue1a

Haha, BPD seems to be (scarily) such a complex condition with so many facets that it seems impossible to try to describe it all in just one sentence, or even in a brief paragraph. Consequently, I've attempted numerous times to challenge this notion by trying to summarize it all into one sentence or even a simple explanation. But to no avail - I can't ever seem to do it justice, haha.

Lol, my latest attempt is this: "A state of being where, basically, life eats you up alive".

Which, even the sound of that can be quite scary...

But I guess that could also kinda go with such things like severe depression and anxiety...

But hell, depression and anxiety are a couple of possibilities out of a handful of facets of BPD.

An attempt at a simple explanation I've came up with before was - (for a non-borderline individual) "Imagine your most stressful day ever, with a sense of turbulent, inner and outer emotional chaos - NOW, imagine living in that state for most, if not all the days of your life".

This condition is one HELL of an emotional and mental labyrinth. Not to sound cheesy, but it really does take its toll on its victims.

Also...

"Trying to define BPD is like staring into a lava lamp: what you see is constantly changing. The illness not only causes instability but symbolizes it." - from Stop Walking On Eggshells

So... I'd say instability is DEFINITELY characteristic of BPD.

DelusionsDaily · Mar 20, 2012, 04:16 AM

Thaks all!

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