A new article appearing in Frontiers in Psychology provides convincing evidence of a tendency among borderline personalities to expect the worst of people. Naturally, this is not a recipe for psychological health and happiness.
“Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) show intense reactions to perceived abandonment, a high degree of mistrust, and a distorted, negative perception of others,” report the authors of the research led by Evelyn Levay of Simmelweis University in Hungary.
“They misinterpret social cues with a pronounced negative bias, or fail to accurately perceive positive and neutral cues.
With borderline personality disorder, you have an intense fear of abandonment or instability, and you may have difficulty tolerating being alone. Yet inappropriate anger, impulsiveness and frequent mood swings may push others away, even though you want to have loving and lasting relationships.
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