7. Explosive anger.
This anger is not getting mad, but highly volatile that the people around them fear for their safety. Explosive anger for an individual that has BPD generally can happen over minor circumstances. This feature directly relates to the inappropriate reactions and responses that many individuals who suffer from this disorder face.
Their anger is a correlation that affects their ability to maintain healthy, flourishing relationships regardless of romantic attachment, friendships, or close family relationships. Anger is a natural emotion, but responses dictate the appropriateness of that anger and the situation. Following an explosive anger episode leaves the individual insubstantial guilt and embarrassment because their feelings have stabilized and their rational thinking returns.
8. Pushing people away or being overly clingy.
Pushing people away to hide their true selves because they have not embraced their disorder is a common problem. This tendency leads the individual to become excessively clingy for the fear that a person will leave them. Both of these features work against each other because one would not exist without the other.
BPD triggers an overwhelming fear of losing everyone that surrounds them. This fear creates irrational behavior, unproductive coping mechanisms, and destructive relationship techniques that they cannot control. This response assists in the unstable relationship that they make because they do not possess the qualities to maintain healthy relationships long-term.
Relationships require healthy strategies and interactions, and when toxicity becomes the central focus, they will end destructively. Someone with BPD does not take accountability for their relationship ending because, with their unstable thinking, the blame is always the other person’s. They will see their behavior as normal and view the other person as wronging them.
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