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My ex was going into a PhD or psychD program for psychology. She also had been diagnosed with BPD. She mentioned that which parents had narcissistic personality disorder, the kids tend to be at higher risk of BPD.

I was in a serious relationship with a girl who was diagnosed with BPD, she was also going into a PhD or PsychD for clinical psychology. Smartest person I’ve probably ever known... and I’m an MD myself. The way that many people seem to be able to conceptualize it is if you describe it as bipolar disorder on a very very compressed time scale. Rather than weeks of depression then days of mania, that rage can occur over a few minutes or hours with as intense emotion. As a compensatory mechanisms, borderline people may rationalize things differently as a self defense technique against that very same emotional range. All of this, can fall in context with a deep or unidentifiable lack of sense of self, these symptoms all mixed in with a sense of, “who am I, really?”, which can also feed and be affected by the difficult to manage emotional swings.

My ex had BPD, very high functioning and successful. Also extremely volatile and, around me, dangerous. Also extremely extremely high sex drive. BUT, she never did drugs, was super responsible with alcohol, was top of her class in work and school. There are many many many ways it can manifest in people, just like anything else.

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