How does borderline personality disorder affect communication?

Communication can be difficult for everyone, but it is especially difficult to communicate effectively if you have borderline personality disorder. It can feel like no matter how you express yourself, no one understands how you really feel which can be immensely frustrating.

Can BPD affect speech?

BPD participants evidenced significantly greater levels of overall expressive language impairment and reduced syntactic and lexical complexity, but not semantic complexity scores. Detailed linguistic profiles demonstrated specific deficits linked to BPD.

Do people with borderline personality disorder have multiple personalities?

‘I don’t have multiple personalities.’ Due to it being a personality disorder, BPD is often confused with someone having dissociative identity disorder, where people develop multiple personalities. But this isn’t the case at all. People with BPD don’t have more than one personality.

How do borderlines affect you?

Borderlines’ intense, labile emotions elevate you when they’re in good spirits and crush you when they’re not. You’re a prince or a princess; a bastard or a bitch. If you’re on the outs with them, all their bad feelings get projected onto you.

Why do people fall in love with borderline personality disorder?

They’re easily seduced by the borderline’s extreme openness, charm, and vulnerability. In addition, the borderline’s passion and intense emotions are enlivening to non-BPDs, who find being alone depressing or “healthy” people boring.

What is the difference between a borderline and a partner?

These partners vicariously come alive through the melodrama provided by the borderline. The borderline may appear to be the more dependent underdog in the relationship, while his or her partner is the steady, needless, and caretaking top dog, but in fact, both are dependent on each other. It can be hard for either of them to leave.