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Is it Possible to Stop A Person With Borderline Personality Disorder From Splitting?
Emotional deregulation is a common trait of those suffering from BPD.
Let’s not bullshit ourselves here. Even with the most aware borderline, when a trigger happens and the right one, it’s a point of no return. It will get ugly, and you best fucking run.
Splitting is a term used in psychiatry to describe the inability to hold opposing thoughts, feelings, or beliefs. Some might say that a person who splits sees the world in terms of black or white — all or nothing. It’s a distorted way of thinking in which the positive or negative attributes of a person or event are neither weighed nor cohesive.
The borderline mind doesn’t have a chance to “check” itself before it’s too late. The destruction and distorted thoughts have already started. It’s a land they go to with little to no chance of return.
After they exhaust themselves in that mindset, the guilt will come. Not the guilt an average person feels but the distorted guilt they wish they could take back.
