Dr. Jameca CooperForensic Psychology Consultant, Emergence Psychological Services · Board Certified Counseling Psychologist and Forensic Psychology Consultant

What BPD may look like #mentalhealthmatters #BPDawareness #impulsivebehavior #BPD #mentalhealth

19 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this short segment Dr. Jameca Cooper explains three core behavioral and cognitive features that often signal borderline personality disorder (BPD). She first describes the impulsive tendencies that characterize many people with BPD, such as making rapid decisions without forethought, saying inappropriate things, and engaging in risky sexual or shopping behaviors. Next, she highlights the pervasive instability of relationships across all domains—family, friends, coworkers, and romantic partners—emphasizing that people with BPD tend to have a pattern of volatile, short‑lived connections. Finally, she notes the dichotomous, “all‑or‑nothing” thinking style typical of BPD, where individuals view others as either completely loved or completely hated, with little gray area. The segment serves as an awareness piece, offering concrete examples to help viewers recognize BPD symptom patterns.

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One of the things that you have that may be unique if you have borderline personality disorder is that you tend to exhibit impulsive behavior. Impulsivity in the form of making choices quickly without thinking, saying things that you shouldn't normally say, maybe inappropriate things. Depending on the person, sometimes these impulsive behaviors could all be in a certain area. It could be sex. You could go out and have sex with random people, make impulsive decisions about that. For other people, it could be shopping. It could be a combination of those. Unstable relationships are also a hallmark of borderline personality disorder. If you find someone that you think has borderline personality disorder or has been diagnosed with it, you usually see a long trail of unstable relationships. Usually it's everyone in their life— parents, siblings, relatives, coworkers, friends, romantic relationships. All of their relationships are unstable because they're unstable. Typically, there's no gray area with a person with borderline personality disorder. They either love you or they hate you.