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.

Formatted for clarity.

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.

“And contrary to what the author of the original article says, there is treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder.”

No, he said BPD is not CURABLE.

Treatment would be tons of counseling, anxiolytics like xanax, to take the rage-edge off...what else? Solitary confinement?

Remember too, what is it “Borderline” to?

Right, that would be PSYCHOTIC!

BPDs and NPDs (& LIBS-closely related), both
FEAR abandonment - that’s why it’s best to IGNORE THEM
&
HATE ridicule - that’s why we should always laugh at/meme their NPC sorry butts!

Well, I'll follow your lead, and focus on ridicule, since you think that is an effective technique to help someone with a serious illness. I don't, but apparently you do.

So get off your fat butt and go exercise instead of sitting at your computer. It will help you think more clearly.

Most illnesses aren't "CURABLE", but we don't distinguish them and scorn the victims of them. Do you make fun of people with diabetes?

So, following your approach that seeks to ridicule people with a serious illness, you are obviously an ignorant idiot who knows nothing about mental health. Your proposed treatment is, if you were actually treating someone, malpractice.

Oh, and I'll follow your second treatment approach -- ignoring the victim of the illness -- so don't bother saying anything else as silly as what you already posted.

So now you are cured.

“Of course adding Trump Derangement Syndrome and Extreme Liberalism to the DSM might help also.”

Yeah. One FReeper gave a pretty good history of the vote in ‘73 (I think he/she said...mighta been you!) to take homosexuality out of the DSM - FReeper even had the vote totals!

Then when was it that they, the ACLU, closed the mental hospitals down? You probably know.

Having had a prolonged major life crisis/run in with an NPD forced me to become pretty much an expert, click my name, but I like to think of the differential btwn the two NPD/BPD. ( I know books have been written)
The professionals I’ve interacted with have invariably said; “NPD feels like this and BPD feels like that.”

In my experience/observation, NPDs have more charm - at first at least, to suck you in. BPDs, not so much.

In fact, I’m beginning to think the LEFT is more like BPD (than NPD - though bama was an NPD - he had the charm), but it is interesting to me

that IT IS A MENTAL ILLNESS- leftism, that is.

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