Question

What is high functioning borderline personality disorder?

Answer 1

High-performance borderline personality disorder (BPD):

1. Borderline personality disorder is a disabling disorder that causes troubling symptoms.
2. BPD is the result of trauma — an overwhelmingly painful experience in your life.
3. This trauma may not be visible, but it takes the form of chronic psychological abuse or neglect.
4. High functional BPPD means that one can spend the day at BPD while hiding symptoms from others.
5. One can keep their emotions away to avoid conflicts and losses.
6. Externally, one seems to be normal but is suffering from BPD internally.

BPD sufferers experience:

1. BPD patients often have the turmoil of extreme emotions.
2. Sufferers find it difficult to make relationships.
3. They are often misunderstood and are left isolated.

Symptoms of BPD-

1. Strong fears of abandonment.
2. In the relationships, alternating periods of devaluation and idealization.
3. Persistently unstable self-image and sense of identity.
4. Impulsivity in areas like substance abuse, binge eating, unsafe driving, reckless spending, etc can cause damage to others and self.
5. The feeling of acute emotional disquiet for hours or days.
6. Emptiness and low motivation-like feelings become chronic.
7. Explosive, intense bursts of uncontrollable anger.
8. Extreme paranoia, disconnection from reality, and suspicion.
9. Suicidal threats (cutting, pulling out hair, scratching the skin till it bleeds, etc.