Quick question

When you feel someone is attacking someone you care about ( i.e. significant other, child, etc.), do you find that you get enraged at whoever the attacker is? Like when this happens I just want to destroy that person, even if it isn't related to me in any way. Does this happen to anyone else?

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I think it's a normal reaction to be angry when someone is attacking someone you care about. I would be!

I would be angry at anyone attacking my loved ones.

I feel I take it to an extreme though. For example, someone honked at my boyfriend while driving and I literally stuck my head out and starting cussing out the car, almost to the point of getting out and attacking them.

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was it a good honk or a bad honk?

A b****y one. Hence the immediate reaction of mega pissed.

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Lots of people do that when they're under the influence of alcohol. If alcohol wasn't a factor and your mood was completely fine before the other car honked, yeah...that's a pretty extreme reaction.

I am pretty extreme when I see or feel a loved on is being or have been attacked. I get so enraged and also like you, vengeful. There are many scenarios I could go into

If I'm feeling really emotionally dysregulated, I am a horror driver. I scream and swear and flip people off...when they really don't do anything that deserves that. I hate when I get like that because usually I'm pretty laid back.

This is kind of what I meant. My BPD just takes over. I like to think I'm generally calm and nice, but when I get like that I'm just not.

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My b/f and I were driving slowly through a parking lot not too long ago. Some young gal came flying into the lot towards our car on his side on an angle where he couldn't even see her right away. She got soo close, I yelled to watch out and she got right THERE by us and was mouthin' up a storm as she kept driving in front us of. . . boy that ticked me off. Like she did nothing wrong whatsoever ~ she just kept mouthin' off looking at us ~ finally I was not so nice and gave her the finger. I don't usually do those things, but that sure felt right with that incident. My BPD adrenaline.

My H used to do this kind of thing, just go OFF The Rails at the slightest provocation, especially when driving. To me it was a complete lack of self control that he Had To get a grip on, an immaturity that was inappropriate, given his age. And I felt he was endangering us, road rage can go horribly wrong if someone is packin'...
I would get so upset at his getting upset that he finally took stock and stopped the childish acting out. But then I sorta forced him to see it from my eyes when I filmed him. He never knew what a jerk he looked like until then.
Just my true story...

Have I ever!!! Unfortunately taking on other peoples emotions is part of BPD. I never knew why I did that until I was diagnosed with BPD and started to research it. I now try to ignore other peoples issues unless it involves me. Heck, you should see me when I watch a drama movie