BPD and How "Everyone Hates Me" Becomes Unempathetic (BPD and Empathy)

Can someone with BPD care about other people and still behave in profoundly unempathetic ways?

In this episode of The BPD Bunch, Xannie, Georgette, André, Solène, and Katja explore the uncomfortable reality that Borderline Personality Disorder can sometimes make people so emotionally reactive, hypervigilant, and consumed by fear that they stop accurately understanding or trusting other people’s emotions, intentions, and experiences.This season, we’re discussing BPD through the lens of the Alternative Model of Personality Disorders (AMPD).

Under the AMPD, difficulties with empathy are considered part of impairments in interpersonal functioning, alongside intimacy. To meet criteria for BPD in this model, a person must have difficulties in at least two areas of personality functioning: identity, self direction, empathy, or intimacy, along with four or more pathological personality traits, which we’ll be discussing in more detail later this season.

In this episode:

* BPD and empathy

* Social paranoia in BPD

* Misreading neutrality as rejection

* Reassurance seeking

* Fear of abandonment

* Mind-reading and projection

* Why emotional overwhelm can reduce empathy

If you’ve ever convinced yourself someone secretly hated you, struggled to trust reassurance, replayed social interactions for hours, or felt overwhelmed by other people’s emotions, this episode is for you.

In the first two episodes of the season, Dr. Carla Sharp, Dr. Frank Yeomans, and Dr. Alex Stein explained what the AMPD is, how it changes from the current categorical model, and how the BPD diagnosis is changing. If you missed them check them out:

Part 1

Part 2

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Disclaimer:

This video is for education only and is not meant to provide professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

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