A BPD Therapists’ Guide to Understanding BPD Symptoms
There’s an old saying among those who help people with ADHD: “ADHD seldom travels alone.” People who struggle with ADHD often suffer from anxiety, depression, and other serious conditions such as a personality disorder. One of the hardest co-occurring conditions to identify is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). All personality disorders, including BPD, involve developmental abnormalities; at some time in a child’s life, for whatever reason, normal human development didn’t fully take place. It’s as if part of a person’s personality is still “stuck” in that earlier stage of development. Let’s understand the deeper facets of BPD symptoms with BPD therapists ’ expert analysis. How Do Symptoms Of BPD Differ From ADHD Symptoms? Understand The BPD Symptoms · BPD is characterized by a deficit in emotional self-regulation. This hyper-reactivity results in all-or-nothing thinking, “magical” thinking, and the inability to adequately perceive what is going on in other people’s minds. Peop...