Men With Borderline Personality Disorder Show Common Behaviors Loved Ones Will 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.

Many BPD sufferers repeatedly fall into negative and destructive relationships. Physical and mental abuse is not unusual. Borderlines can be needy and mistrusting to an excessive degree. They may swing from overly close to completely distant and uninvolved. It's not only romantic partners that experience this phenomenon. Friends and family are the victims of it too.

Borderlines can become intensely anxious. They may even panic. Worries and anxiety are common feelings for healthy people. Sufferers of BPD carry the feelings to the extreme. They may be hypersensitive about how others act toward them. Borderlines will lash out when they feel threatened because they want to be accepted so badly.

Men who have BPD are terrified of abandonment and being left alone. You may be the victim of his paranoia and intense jealousy. Borderlines are not above stalking their partners and monitoring their daily activities. Your partner may accuse you of ridiculous things that make no sense or have any basis in reality. He may even threaten to kill himself if you don't do whatever it is that he wants you to do.

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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