How To Recognize Men With Borderline Personality Disorder

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 mentally ill people are highly functioning. They might seem to have everything together until you get to know them well. Other people are at the opposite end of the spectrum. They can't function without their daily medication to keep them going. It is no different for males who have BPD. If you have any hope of understanding how your partner thinks, you need to be aware of the signs of the disease.

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.

Being abandoned terrifies BPD sufferers. Because of this they tend to become excessively paranoid and jealous. They will accuse their partners of behaviors that have no basis in reality. Borderlines have been known to stalk partners and monitor when partners come and go. It is not unusual for them to make irrational demands and then threaten to kill themselves when the partner refuses to comply.

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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