At the heart of Borderline Personality Disorder lies the fear of abandonment. An important BDP criterion is that the sufferer makes “frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment”. Once called borderline personality disorder because of its similarity with schizophrenia and the ‘borderline’ it presents between the normal and the psychotic, the disorder is one of the most painful and difficult to live with.

Growing up with BPD makes a child or adolescent’s life more terrible than the actual growing up phase can cause. An infant cannot make the difference between a temporary absence of its mother and when she ‘extincts’.

This is reflected in the BPD child too; who cannot make the difference between temporary loneliness and perpetual isolation. This fear of loneliness and abandonment causes the child to grow depressed and be enraged at the world. If only therapists come together to solve this eternal personality disorder, BPD youngsters can better adjust to society and life.BPD adults on the other hand, have a tougher chance at coming back to normalcy, if such a thing existed.

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