13 Signs Of Borderline Personality Disorder

3. Splitting

As a result of their disease, many persons with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have strong and unstable interactions with others. Their relationships tend to vary from being all good or all awful, and they can’t experience contradicting sensations while responding to the world or others. This black-and-white thinking, or dividing, may affect all relationships, including those with classmates, professors, and instructors, managers, and supervisors, at school or at work. Your devaluation reaction may be triggered by increased sensitivity to rejection (also known as abandonment sensitivity). Because of your sensitivity, you may overreact to actual or perceived rejections. The emotion of rejection is overwhelming and consuming, and it may feel quite genuine, whether it was intended or not.

You may feel enraged, abandon the related task, become violent, or just give up in response to devaluation. It’s conceivable that the person, relationship, or work may be viewed as ideal again, but it’s also possible that the unfavorable perception will persist or that the harm done will be permanent. Friendships can be shattered, jobs can be lost, and studies can be halted. It may be a debilitating experience with serious ramifications.