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How do you communicate effectively with borderline personality disorder?
Here are a few basic pointers for communicating with someone with borderline personality disorder in a healthy and productive way:
- Be patient.
- Be realistic.
- Try to separate facts from feelings.
- Validate feelings first.
- Listen actively and be sympathetic.
- Seek to distract when emotions rise.
How do you tell someone with BPD to calm down?
Calmly reassure the person with BPD when setting limits. Say something like, “I love you and I want our relationship to work, but I can’t handle the stress caused by your behavior. I need you to make this change for me.”…
- Make threats and ultimatums that you can’t carry out.
- Tolerate abusive behavior.
In everyday life, BPD patients often experience more unstable social relations than healthy controls as well as fewer social interactions and have sometimes been shown to use maladaptive resources for social support within their social network [143, 144].
How to deal with BPD emotional manipulation?
Understanding BPD Emotional Manipulation Techniques and How Treatment Can Help 1 Walking on Eggshells. BPD is inherently about instability. 2 Reframing Emotional Manipulation in BPD. The actions of people who have BPD can indeed feel… 3 Helping Your Loved One Heal. While understanding what your loved one is going through…
What is it like to love someone with borderline personality disorder?
The behavior of people with borderline personality disorder is often interpreted as emotional manipulation. Indeed, when you love someone with borderline personality disorder (BPD), it can feel as if you are walking on eggshells, never knowing what might trigger them.
Is it rewarding to have people with BPD Hate You?
It is not the person being “rewarded,” but the behavior. It is anything but rewarding to have people hate you. The goals of the most troublesome of the behavior exhibited by people with BPD, for reasons I discussed here and here, is to cause in their targets one of three reactions.
Should you be shamed for your loved one’s BPD?
No one should be shamed for experiencing either. But if your loved one struggles with borderline personality disorder (BPD), the comparisons can often fall flat. After all, cancer doesn’t manifest in social bonds. Broken legs don’t threaten to kill themselves.