Emotions Aren’t Facts: Understanding Borderline Thinking

Not without treatment and even then I think their level of awareness is still extremely handicap. A fascinating aspect about bpd is the borderlines belief that they are hyper aware and extremely conscious. I think the reason people get so mad at borderlines is their horrible inability to properly define things and express themselves. Being filled with unstable emotions, being so sensitive you feel like you are going to explode DOES NOT mean what you are feeling is accurate or true! I get pwbpd that see feelings as facts all the time. Because they feel things so intensely they often assume it’s a factual feeling (completely wrong).

One of the things that gets borderlines in trouble more than anything is their impulse to make unproven assumptions which sadly just makes them look really unstable. I’ll give an example: I’ve written bluntly about many negative traits of bpd (there are only negative traits! It’s a mental illness not a gift). I’ll get untreated, upset, and easily triggered borderlines who will comment with these very hate filled, character attacking, judgments against me personally. A very common one is the “who hurt you. We aren’t all the same and just because one pwbpd hurt you doesn’t mean you should paint us all with the same brush.” Well, I’ve never in my life dated a cluster b and I never will lol. My only reason for posting is…