Do people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) discard people?

In general, someone with BPD is much less likely to permanently discard someone, like someone with NPD might. However, it is certainly possible that they could. People who suffer from BPD tend to have very unstable object constancy, and experience extreme emotional splitting.

What does BPD look like in a relationship?

This might look like rebelling against what is in your best interest, asking for advice from parents, friends, anyone who listen and care, attention seeking behaviors etc. In general, someone with BPD is much less likely to permanently discard someone, like someone with NPD might. However, it is certainly possible that they could.

Why do people with BPD come back after a breakup?

However, unlike other personality disorders like NPD, someone with BPD quickly fears abandonment (even if they were the one to end the relationship), and is more likely to come back and cling to someone as they are deeply afraid of abandonment and it triggers many of their painful experiences from childhood.

Is borderline personality disorder a disease or a genetic disorder?

While genetics may predispose some individuals to be more prone to develop these characteristics than others, I am not among the psychiatrists who think BPD is a disease rather than dysfunctional personality traits that tend to co-occur in some children from some disturbed families. Why do I say this? Mainly for two reasons.

How did you become a demonized BPD person?

Something somewhere unbenounced to you flipped a switch in the untreated BPD persons not fully functioning brain and from that moment on you were moved from idealized to demonized. You were not told but it happened.

What are the most common devalue/discard prompts for pwbpd?

By far, one of the most common devalue/discard prompts is the person’s refusal or inability to collude in the maintenance of the pwBPD’s false self. (This is likewise one of the most common devalue/discard prompts for narcissists.) A false self, by definition, needs a great deal of external confirmatory feedback to maintain ‘cohesion’ as it were.