How To Live With Someone With A Borderline Personality Disorder

Shari Manning helps you understand why your spouse family member or friend has.

How to live with someone with a borderline personality disorder. Learning to live with someone with BPD means learning everything that you can about this disorder. Caring about someone with borderline personality disorder BPD tosses you on a roller coaster ride from being loved and lauded to abandoned and bashed. However by learning how to cope with borderline personality you can fortify your relationship with your loved one while giving both of you the support you need to heal.

To help someone with BPD first take care of yourself When a family member or partner has borderline personality disorder its all too easy to get caught up in heroic efforts to please and appease him or her. It means being ready to metaphorically or literally parry or duck the oncoming barrage or surf the oncoming wave. It is a mental disorder characterized by extreme mood swings trouble with interpersonal relationships a tendency toward impulsivity intense fear of abandonment and an unstable self-image.

A person with a borderline personality disorder is unable to regulate their thoughts and feelings and many describe a sense of emptiness hollowness. Learn About the Illness. Here are the 5 stages you go through when you love someone with a Borderline Personality Disorder.

You may find yourself putting most of your energy into the person with BPD at the expense of your own emotional needs. Often the person with borderline personality disorder can become the central focal point in a relationship and it can feel as if there is little room left for you. Learning to live with a person with BPD means learning to be on the lookout for these changes.

If your spouse suffers from significant symptoms of this disorder you are most likely. If youre struggling in a tumultuous relationship with someone with BPD this is the book for you. Borderline personality disorder or BPD can seem like a daunting and scary diagnosis.

This way its easier for someone with BPD to regulate their emotions and behaviour and to create a healthy and strong relationship. Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder BPD suffer from unstable emotions and relationships. The challenges of living with a spouse having a borderline personality disorder Having a constant negative self-image engaging in self-harming behavior making risky or impulsive choices and a plethora of mood swings or intense emotion mix it all together and you have a perfect recipe for a tumultuous and disastrous relationship.