Do borderlines use projection?

Research suggests people living with personality disorders, like narcissistic personality disorder and borderline personality disorder, may display excessive use of projection and other specific defense mechanisms.

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What is projection in BPD?

The “Projection” Fight

People often try to avoid feeling bad about their own unpleasant traits, behaviors, or feelings by attributing them (often in an accusing way) to someone else. This is a common defense mechanism called projection. People with BPD take it to the extreme.

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What personality disorders use projection?

Projection tends to come to the fore in normal people at times of personal or political crisis and is commonly found in narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder or paranoid personalities.

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Do people with BPD use triangulation?

Someone with BPD may use triangulation to receive reassurance and avoid feelings of abandonment. They may do this by manipulating someone else to feel jealous, thereby proving their love and commitment to them.

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Do people with BPD perceive things differently?

People with BPD also have a tendency to think in extremes, a phenomenon called "dichotomous" or “black-or-white” thinking. 3 People with BPD often struggle to see the complexity in people and situations and are unable to recognize that things are often not either perfect or horrible, but are something in between.

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BPD and Twisting Words, Projection and Manipulation

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Do people with BPD look in the mirror a lot?

People with Borderline Personality Disorder instinctively 'mirror' to fit in, because without that behaviour, we have no idea what will happen. We have little or no sense of our own identity, so we can't know if that will be acceptable to others.

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Why is BPD seen as manipulative?

What are the conditions that may drive a person in their manipulative behavior? In BPD, these conditions are a lack of affective self-understanding, difficulties with regulating one's own emotions, and an impeded interaffectivity that makes it incredibly difficult for the person to feel connected with other people.

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Why are people with BPD so deceitful?

The Connection Between BPD and Lying

Lying, like other signs and symptoms of the condition, tends to occur because the person with BPD is unable to regulate their feelings and impulses. It's an act borne out of pain and fear. Often, people with BPD even believe their own lies.

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Can a person with BPD be manipulative?

One of the most common ways of characterizing patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder is that they are manipulative. Clinical usage of the term varies widely but clearly carries a pejorative meaning.

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Who do people with BPD attract?

Those who have BPD tend to be very intense, dramatic, and exciting. This means they tend to attract others who are depressed and/or suffering low self-esteem. People who take their power from being a victim, or seek excitement in others because their own life is not where they want it to be.

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What are 3 signs you are projecting?

Are You Projecting?
  • Feeling overly hurt, defensive, or sensitive about something someone has said or done.
  • Feeling highly reactive and quick to blame.
  • Difficulty being objective, getting perspective, and standing in the other person's shoes.
  • Noticing that this situation or your reactivity is a recurring pattern.

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What are those with a borderline personality disorder most likely to display?

People with borderline personality disorder may experience intense mood swings and feel uncertainty about how they see themselves. Their feelings for others can change quickly, and swing from extreme closeness to extreme dislike. These changing feelings can lead to unstable relationships and emotional pain.

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Is projection a trauma response?

A person who has experienced a stressful or traumatic event may struggle to cope with the aftermath of that situation. As a result, they are left feeling fearful or powerless. Projection may allow a person to separate themselves from the trauma. However, this may lead them to project intense emotions onto others.

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How do people with BPD view themselves?

identity: The self is impoverished, poorly developed, or there is an unstable self‐image, which is often associated with excessive self‐criticism; chronic feelings of emptiness; and dissociative states under stress, self‐direction: instability in goals, aspirations, values, and career plans.

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Why do people with BPD push?

Push/Pull behaviors

A common theory about why you might use this behavior if you have BPD is because you desperately crave closeness in your relationships but, fearing abandonment, you choose to reject this person before they can reject you.

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Do people with BPD say things they don't mean?

Once upset, borderline people are often unable to think straight or calm themselves in a healthy way. They may say hurtful things or act out in dangerous or inappropriate ways.

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Do people with BPD like drama?

The Drama Triangle is commonly exhibited by sufferers of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). BPD is typically characterized by the intense emotional turmoil experienced by the individual and those around them.

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Do people with BPD sabotage themselves?

Borderline personality disorder causes a broad range of reactions that can be considered self-destructive or self-sabotaging. It influences thoughts, emotions, behavior, and communication, adding a degree of volatility and unpredictability to daily living that can be unsettling for BPD sufferers and their loved ones.

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What is the victim mentality of BPD?

It can be easy to fall into a victim mentality with borderline personality disorder (BPD). You can often feel like your brain is working against you and making life unnecessarily hard. However, treating yourself as a victim can be detrimental and prevent you from recovering and moving on from traumatic events.

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Do borderlines use Gaslighting?

It's a technique often used by those with narcissistic and/or borderline personality disorders to deflect any responsibility from themselves. The victim of gaslighting often asks “what did I do?” and finds themselves eventually questioning and second guessing everything they do.

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Do people with BPD like lying?

Though it's not a specific symptom of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), it's not uncommon for people with BPD to lie compulsively. If you are related to someone with BPD, you might be concerned by the tendency of your loved one to lie and wonder how to cope.

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Do people with BPD not trust anyone?

According to previous research, patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) show intense reactions to perceived abandonment, a high degree of mistrust, and a distorted, negative perception of others that contribute significantly to interpersonal problems.

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Are people with BPD extremely selfish?

Expecting Others To Act Selfishly Is A Key Symptom Of Borderline Personality Disorder. Contributor.

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What are the strange behaviors of BPD?

A pattern of intense and unstable relationships with family, friends, and loved ones. A distorted and unstable self-image or sense of self. Impulsive and often dangerous behaviors, such as spending sprees, unsafe sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, and binge eating.

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Are people with BPD abusive?

Those diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) or those with BPD who may not even know they have it, are more likely than the general population to be verbally, emotionally/psychologically, physically abusive.

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