Men With Borderline Personality Disorder Exhibit Certain Behaviors That Loved Ones Should Recognize

By George Sullivan


There are all kinds of people in the world, and they all have personalities. Some people are more difficult than others. It can be a mental health issue or just a tendency to be thoughtless and self-serving. People with mental disorders don't always process their thoughts in healthy ways. If you have a loved one who craves approval for himself, but has no empathy for others and won't take responsibility for his own actions, he may fall into the category of men with borderline personality disorder, BPD.

Some mentally ill people are highly functioning. They might seem to have everything together until you get to know them well. Other people are at the opposite end of the spectrum. They can't function without their daily medication to keep them going. It is no different for males who have BPD. If you have any hope of understanding how your partner thinks, you need to be aware of the signs of the disease.

One the symptoms of this disease is low self-esteem. You may have noticed this person craving your approval and constant attention. He might try and copy the behavior of the people he surrounds himself with. He does this because he doesn't trust himself. Even though he doesn't act like it, your partner is probably feeling inferior to everybody else. Rather than think for himself, he will do and say things that he believes other people will admire him for.

If this individual suffers from BPD, he most likely lacks empathy. He won't see, or particularly care, about what other people want or need. He will have no regard for how his behavior impacts the people around him. His sense of awareness is underdeveloped. If he has a history of bad relationship experiences, that would be completely normal.

Many BPD sufferers repeatedly fall into negative and destructive relationships. Physical and mental abuse is not unusual. Borderlines can be needy and mistrusting to an excessive degree. They may swing from overly close to completely distant and uninvolved. It's not only romantic partners that experience this phenomenon. Friends and family are the victims of it too.

Borderlines can become intensely anxious. They may even panic. Worries and anxiety are common feelings for healthy people. Sufferers of BPD carry the feelings to the extreme. They may be hypersensitive about how others act toward them. Borderlines will lash out when they feel threatened because they want to be accepted so badly.

Men who have BPD are terrified of abandonment and being left alone. You may be the victim of his paranoia and intense jealousy. Borderlines are not above stalking their partners and monitoring their daily activities. Your partner may accuse you of ridiculous things that make no sense or have any basis in reality. He may even threaten to kill himself if you don't do whatever it is that he wants you to do.

Mood swings and uncontrollable anger are two major signs of this disease. BPD sufferers blame everyone else for their shortcomings. They can be impulsive and prone to risky behaviors. Ten percent of people diagnosed with the disorder commit suicide. That's four hundred times higher than the national average.




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