Men With Borderline Personality Disorder Exhibit Certain Behaviors That Loved Ones Should Recognize

By George Sullivan


You are going to meet all kinds of people in your life. Some people are more challenging than others. Sometimes they have mental health issues, and sometimes they are just that self-serving and thoughtless. Processing thoughts in healthy ways is often difficult for individuals with mental disorders. If you're involved with someone who won't take responsibility for what he does, craves your approval, and lacks empathy, he may be one of the men with borderline personality disorder, or BPD.

Some with mental health issues are highly functioning. Unless you know them intimately, you would never guess they have a problem. Others, at the other end of the spectrum, can barely function without medication, and you know when they're in crisis. Males with BPD are no exception. In order to understand the loved one, you have to know the signs that the experts look for.

One the symptoms of this disease is low self-esteem. You may have noticed this person craving your approval and constant attention. He might try and copy the behavior of the people he surrounds himself with. He does this because he doesn't trust himself. Even though he doesn't act like it, your partner is probably feeling inferior to everybody else. Rather than think for himself, he will do and say things that he believes other people will admire him for.

If this individual suffers from BPD, he most likely lacks empathy. He won't see, or particularly care, about what other people want or need. He will have no regard for how his behavior impacts the people around him. His sense of awareness is underdeveloped. If he has a history of bad relationship experiences, that would be completely normal.

It's not unusual for these types of people to get involved in destructive and negative relationships. Mental and physical abuse is fairly common. Borderlines can be excessively needy and mistrusting. They can go from uncomfortably close to an individual to totally distant. Romantic partners aren't the only ones who experience this. Family and friends are victims of the behavior as well.

BPD can make people feel intensely anxious, even to the point of panic. Everybody worries and gets anxious about things on occasion, but BPD sufferers carry it to the extreme. They can be hypersensitive to how other people act toward them. These individuals want so badly to be accepted, when they feel threatened, they may lash out in inappropriate ways.

BPD sufferers are terrified of being abandoned or left alone. This can lead them to become intensely jealous and paranoid. They sometimes accuse partners of behavior that has no rational basis. It's not unusual for them to stalk a partner or monitor their comings and goings. Those suffering from BPD may threaten to kill themselves if the partner doesn't comply with their irrational demands.

Mood swings and uncontrollable anger are two major signs of this disease. BPD sufferers blame everyone else for their shortcomings. They can be impulsive and prone to risky behaviors. Ten percent of people diagnosed with the disorder commit suicide. That's four hundred times higher than the national average.




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