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• Afflicted with self-loathing, the borderline distrusts others’ expressions of caring.
• she is much like the demanding boss who continually asks herself and others, “Yeah, so? What have you done for me lately?”
• Lovers and mates, mothers and fathers, siblings, friends, and psychotherapists may be idolized one day, totally devalued and dismissed the next. When the idealized person finally disappoints (as we all do, sooner or later), the borderline must drastically restructure his strict, inflexible conceptualization. Either the idol is banished to the dunge...
• “The most difficult part of being a borderline personality has been the emptiness, the loneliness, and the intensity of feelings,”
• temperament (inherited personal characteristics, such as impatience, vulnerability to addiction, etc.) and character (developmental values emerging from environment and life experiences)—in other words a “nature-nurture” mix. Temperament characteristics may be correlated with genetic and biological markers, develop early in life, and are perceived ...