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Borderline personality disorder Cause
No one thing has been identified as the borderline personality disorder cause. Rather the borderline personality disorder cause is the result of many factors ranging from a biological vulnerability, genetic and hormonal influences, as well as environmental factors may be at the root of borderline personality disorder cause. But these biological substrates alone do not account for the borderline personality disorder cause. Combinations of risk factors from the domains of temperament, early childhood experiences, and subtle neurological changes as well as hormonal imbalances may interact with each other and, in combination, create the borderline personality disorder cause. An association between BPD and severe cases of PMS has been postulated. I mention towards the end of my book, Poisoned Love that my therapist postulated that the borderline personality disorder cause in me was connected to a low level and ongoing post traumatic stress disorder related to the emotional abuse I suffered at the hands of my father.
Regarding the inherited vulnerability aspect of borderline personality disorder cause, studies suggest that borderline personality disorder is more frequent in identical twins than in the general population. In addition, Borderlines have more relatives with mood disorders, alcoholism, and suicide than do people who do not have BPD.
Temperament as a borderline personality disorder cause has to do with a baby’s inherent physical and emotional stability. Babies who go on to become BPD are often described as hard to console, irregular in feeding and sleeping patterns, and reacting with unusually intense rage to frustration or pain. By no means do all difficult babies become BPD, and on the flip side, some mothers of BPD patients describe them as having been unusually easy, tranquil babies.
Early life experience as borderline personality disorder cause has to do with suffering hardships in infancy and early childhood. There is evidence for the central role of family as a borderline personality disorder cause, including interactions that are negative and critical rather than supportive and empathic, with parental and family behaviors transacting with the child’s own behaviors and emotional vulnerabilities. Often, people who go on to develop borderline personality disorder have been physically, sexually and emotionally abused. They have had multiple caretakers. They have lost parents through death or divorce. They have had frequent and painful illnesses. Yet not all children who suffered in these ways develop borderline personality disorder. Nor do all borderline personality disorder patients come from this type of past. Some people who grow up in stable families and seem to have had no unusual hardships develop borderline personality disorder. In my book, Poisoned Love, I explore the connection between my having had an absent father at a very young as a contributing factor to my borderline personality disorder cause.
Neurological and hormonal patterns as borderline personality disorder cause. Many adult patients had developmental problems in childhood. Others had various learning disabilities. Some have had seizures or show abnormalities in their brainwaves. Others had an unusual degree of trouble with their menstrual cycle once they entered puberty.
Two experiences in growing up are very, very common among borderline personality disorder people and thus constitute a putative borderline personality disorder cause. One is the experience of being seen as apparently competent, because they are indeed often very competent, smart, funny, sensitive, clever, and insightful, and therefore not being taken seriously when they collapse in despair at a minor frustration, burst into rage over nothing, or make terrible errors of judgment. They are often told. “it’s not that bad,” or “shape up-grow up-you know better.” Their behavior is often seen as willful, manipulative, or “just looking for attention.” In my book, Poisoned Love, I describe how my father always used to take my younger sister’s side when she hurt me, saying :I should know better,: because I was older. His not taking my feeling seriously could have contributed to my borderline personality disorder cause.
The second, related to being seen as competent and therefore not taken seriously when suffering, is that of being invalidated. Being invalidated is a huge borderline personality disorder cause. Being invalidated compounds the borderline person’s self-hatred and the confusion about their own identity, i.e. are my feelings really my feelings?
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