Splitting: the self and others are viewed as "all good" or "all bad."
Alternating clinging and distancing behaviors (I Hate You, Don't Leave Me).
Great difficulty trusting people and themselves. Early trust may have been shattered by people who were close to you.
Sensitivity to criticism or rejection.
Feeling of "needing" someone else to survive
Heavy need for affection and reassurance
Some people with BPD may have an unusually high degree of interpersonal sensitivity, insight and empathy
What if these all apply to you, or your loved one, but not all at their most extreme interpretation? Is BPD considered a 'spectrum disorder'? And what if some of those traits apply, yet there is no tendency towards self-destructive behaviour?
Just curious, that's all.
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