Posted on 07/01/2019 2:19:03 PM PDT by huckfillary
Borderline Personality Disorder and Snowflake America
In psychology, there’s a term called “borderline personality disorder”. Borderline personalities see themselves as victims, even though they’re not victims. Usually, they blame everything on their parents. Interestingly, in their failure to launch, they typically remain at home with their parents into their 20s, 30s and even beyond. This helplessness and failure reinforces their unhealthy narrative that their parents are to blame for everything.
And yet: If their parents are so evil, aren’t they the last people they would wish to live with? Wouldn’t they make it the central purpose of their lives to move away, and get away from their evil family?
Leftists remind me of borderline personalities. In fact, leftism is the sociopolitical equivalent of borderline personality disorder. Leftists HATE America. They HATE the Bill of Rights. They HATE dissenting opinion, even though America was built on dissenting opinion and the First Amendment. They HATE material progress, which is why they embrace socialism and environmentalism, which will rid us of economic prosperity, for sure.
Yet leftists are like the borderline personality. Why stay in the country you HATE? They rationalize that they will change it. Or transform it. But why? By screaming about their alleged victimhood and emotionally blackmailing people into participating in their own self-destruction. Borderlines and leftists both do this!
The rest of the world is based on principles opposite of America’s. Nobody else in the world has a First and Second Amendment. Nobody else, at least no large economy, has the degree of capitalism we have had. Few have taxes as low. So why not go to the places you LOVE and exit the one place you hate?
That’s my question: Both for borderline personalities (on the local level) and for leftists-socialists-fascists on the sociopolitical level.
We already know the answer, of course. Leftists, like borderline personalities, are not curable. They don’t want to be cured. They want to be victims. They want to hate us and blame us — the decent, the productive — so they can feel like victims. They are haters, plain and simple. We — the rational, the life-loving and the healthy — let them control us at our peril.
BPD=Bad Person Disorder
Enter the Red Hen. Order a cup of stupid.
Actually, during the eight years of Obamaism America began sliding down on the list of freest economies.
Article tends to tailor the symptoms to its own designs. Here is a fuller understanding of the Borderline Personality:
Fear of abandonment. People with BPD are often terrified of being abandoned or left alone. Even something as innocuous as a loved one arriving home late from work or going away for the weekend may trigger intense fear. This can prompt frantic efforts to keep the other person close. You may beg, cling, start fights, track your loved one’s movements, or even physically block the person from leaving. Unfortunately, this behavior tends to have the opposite effect—driving others away.
Unstable relationships. People with BPD tend to have relationships that are intense and short-lived. You may fall in love quickly, believing that each new person is the one who will make you feel whole, only to be quickly disappointed. Your relationships either seem perfect or horrible, without any middle ground. Your lovers, friends, or family members may feel like they have emotional whiplash as a result of your rapid swings from idealization to devaluation, anger, and hate.
Unclear or shifting self-image. When you have BPD, your sense of self is typically unstable. Sometimes you may feel good about yourself, but other times you hate yourself, or even view yourself as evil. You probably don’t have a clear idea of who you are or what you want in life. As a result, you may frequently change jobs, friends, lovers, religion, values, goals, or even sexual identity.
Impulsive, self-destructive behaviors. If you have BPD, you may engage in harmful, sensation-seeking behaviors, especially when you’re upset. You may impulsively spend money you can’t afford, binge eat, drive recklessly, shoplift, engage in risky sex, or overdo it with drugs or alcohol. These risky behaviors may help you feel better in the moment, but they hurt you and those around you over the long-term.
Self-harm. Suicidal behavior and deliberate self-harm is common in people with BPD. Suicidal behavior includes thinking about suicide, making suicidal gestures or threats, or actually carrying out a suicide attempt. Self-harm encompasses all other attempts to hurt yourself without suicidal intent. Common forms of self-harm include cutting and burning.
Extreme emotional swings. Unstable emotions and moods are common with BPD. One moment, you may feel happy, and the next, despondent. Little things that other people brush off can send you into an emotional tailspin. These mood swings are intense, but they tend to pass fairly quickly (unlike the emotional swings of depression or bipolar disorder), usually lasting just a few minutes or hours.
Chronic feelings of emptiness. People with BPD often talk about feeling empty, as if there’s a hole or a void inside them. At the extreme, you may feel as if you’re “nothing” or “nobody.” This feeling is uncomfortable, so you may try to fill the void with things like drugs, food, or sex. But nothing feels truly satisfying.
Explosive anger. If you have BPD, you may struggle with intense anger and a short temper. You may also have trouble controlling yourself once the fuse is lit—yelling, throwing things, or becoming completely consumed by rage. It’s important to note that this anger isn’t always directed outwards. You may spend a lot of time feeling angry at yourself.
Feeling suspicious or out of touch with reality. People with BPD often struggle with paranoia or suspicious thoughts about others’ motives. When under stress, you may even lose touch with reality—an experience known as dissociation. You may feel foggy, spaced out, or as if you’re outside your own body.
After self harming and bleeding profusely, I enter into explosive anger for a couple of minutes.
Yeah, me too. Is that so #@*#’in bad?
Wow. That’s quite an affliction. Mental health knowledge and treatment seems so inadequate and primitive, compared to the suffering that is going on. So we’re left with the spiritual— I will pray for you, Caltaxed.
Thanks for posting this. The author obviously knows little to nothing about BPD.
I worked with a young girl who was Borderline. Wow, she was difficult to work with. They are very unhappy.
BPD is real and no joke
It can stem from being abused as a little child, and living in terror at being abandoned and neglected. So much pain. Cutting, substance abuse, high risk behaviors, suicide.
There may be a genetic disposition.
Dont ask how I know all this.
But I do.
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Most of what the original author writes is fiction, which is sad because people suffering from BPD have often had very difficult life situations, and other mental illnesses. For example, people with Borderline Personality Disorder are much more likely to have endured serious abuse as children.
Personality disorders are serious illnesses, and aren't "snowflake" behavior.
I pretty much despise everybody but my Wife and Dogs, what type of personality disorder would that be?
Sorry man. I hope you have someone you can talk to
These symptoms are inherent in the modern american woman of today.
Thank you for your concern.
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