I can’t believe how many people have told me, “I love you, I just don’t understand what happened to you.” It is so rare to see someone who doesn’t really like themselves. I love you, I just don’t understand what happened to you.
The only time I see someone with borderline personality disorder is in the movies. A person who has this type of personality disorder is so obsessed with “the wrong things” that they sometimes do things that would make most people blush, like wearing a shirt that shows more than a few “humps” in it. They may even display a “distorted” personality, with a person who is so convinced of their own brilliance that they may be delusional.
There are also some people who suffer from a borderline personality disorder who claim they have a conscience, one that lets them know their actions are wrong, and will stop them if they fail to live up to expectations. These people are often extremely paranoid because they believe that if they do not measure up to expectation, they’ll be forced to leave the group and have to start over.
The other type is the delusional type, which includes the extreme version where you have a person who is so convinced they are in control of the situation that they believe they can do anything and everything that they want. These people can be quite paranoid and sometimes are also very violent.
Borderline personality disorder is a form of personality disorder that involves a person’s core self being too rigid to allow them to do normal things. The delusional type of borderline personality disorder is the opposite where these people are delusional about things that make no sense.
Borderline is a difficult disorder to treat. People with borderline personality disorder can easily get caught up in the delusional world of their own delusions, however once you get to the point where you realize that there’s no way you can ever control the crazy world of your mind, you are faced with the choice either to allow yourself to slide into a life of delusional thoughts and behavior, or to confront the reality that you are completely insane. You can find out more about borderline personality disorder in Chapter 9.
This is the part where you want to shout, “I DON’T WANNA GET THAT!” But you know by now that there is no way to get away from it. You have a tendency to think, “Well I have my own stuff going on, so why does he have this?” And there is simply no way to convince yourself that you aren’t crazy.
In borderline personality disorder, a person’s mental health is often the result of a combination of their genetic makeup and the way they manage to live their lives. This means that one’s mental health can be affected by a number of factors at once. This is particularly true if a person suffers from depression or anxiety or if a person has a serious personality disorder that makes them prone to a variety of psychological problems.
I don’t know about you, but when I think “borderline” or “borders” I immediately think of something like that classic movie about a teenager who is obsessed with animals and has borderline personality disorder. But when I think of a person with more serious personality disorders, I imagine something like that movie.
This is the problem with having borderline or borderlines. Having borderline or borderlines is a good thing. The problem is that most of the time, borderline or borderlines don’t do good things. The best thing a person with a borderline personality disorder can do is to help the people around them by being more aware, more empathetic, and not taking things too seriously.