what the heck even causes borderline
personality disorder what is up
everybody this is Chris from the rewired
soul where we talk about the problem but
focus on the solution and welcome back
to another video about borderline
personality disorder and in this video
we're gonna talk about the three leading
causes of why people get BPD in the
first place so please do me a favor and
share this video because I can't stress
enough a lot of people are walking
around with this personality disorder
and they don't even realize it but they
were at a huge risk based on these
causes so by sharing this video they
might realize like oh wow maybe this is
why I'm acting or responding the way
that I do to things and if you were
somebody with BPD this might give you
some answers too and if you share this
video it might explain to other people
how you got it in the first place like I
was debating on what type of video to do
tonight I might do this video later in
the week but there's a huge stigma about
BPD and I think if people understand the
actual causes of BPD they'll start to
empathize a little bit more and maybe
cut you a little slack now just to make
it clear real quick
I am never of the belief that you should
use your mental illness as an excuse to
be a jerk to people like I mentioned in
my Kanye West video I'll link it up in
the info card like if you do have BPD
that doesn't mean that you're allowed to
just run around all willy-nilly like you
need to seek treatment and I will
provide information on that below or
anyways let's get into the three leading
causes of borderline personality
disorder alright so reason number one
family history okay now I am pulling
this information from the National
Institute of Health and to me reason
number one and reason number three kind
of tie in together but anyways let's
talk about it
reason number one is family history so
if there is a history of borderline
personality disorder in your family your
chances of having BPD are extremely high
now this is more often the case if your
caregiver has symptoms of borderline
personality disorder like in so many
cases of mental illness
or more nurture over nature okay
like if you are being raised by a mother
who has symptoms of borderline
personality disorder where emotions are
all over the place she's emotionally
neglecting you or she's being very
overbearing and this can switch from one
day to the next she might say you are
her favorite child one day and the next
day she says she wishes that you were
never born these are all things that can
develop symptoms of BPD in a child
that's what you will see generations of
BPD going from one person to the next
because you got to understand when we
have children when we're young our
parents our caregivers are the primary
people we're looking to to learn how to
cope and deal with life so when we see
that a person's emotions are all over
the place and they're very impulsive and
you know bouncing from one relationship
to the next and all the other symptoms
of BPD our brain starts to start
rewiring and we start to think that that
is the way that we're supposed to manage
our lives to cause number two genetics
what yes there is a genetic component to
borderline personality disorder now when
it comes to the genetic component what
they have found is that the genetic
component has to do with really two
factors impulsivity as well as emotional
regulation so some of you who have been
around my channel for a while I've heard
me talk about the prefrontal cortex so
it's possible that based on your genetic
predisposition your prefrontal cortex
hasn't developed in a way to properly
regulate your emotions or manage your
impulses so this is how some people
develop BPD even though nobody in their
environment had these symptoms so cause
number three according to the National
Institute of Health says environmental
cultural and social factors many people
with borderline personality disorder
report experiencing traumatic life
events such as abuse abandonment or
adversity during childhood others may
have been exposed to unstable
invalidating relationships and hostile
conflicts so like man this is one of the
reasons why it's so important to
empathize with people with BPD like I
work at a drug and alcohol rehab center
where we specialize in mental illness as
well
and from my personal experience 90% or
more of the clients we have with
borderline they had this as their cause
they had addicted parents they had
neglectful parents they were physically
or sexually abused as a child like this
is what breaks my heart when there's
such a stigma about BPD because so many
of these people they just develop that
way based on their crappy childhood and
like there's this idea that there's so
much we can control in our life but we
cannot control our childhood who we are
raised by where we are where we live
like this is not our choice and this is
a really big cause of borderline
personality disorder so like I said this
kind of relates to cause number one but
if you are raised in a house where your
parents neglect you emotionally they're
not there for you you you don't know how
to regulate these things because a
parent's job is to help guide you
through these emotions if you have been
abused as a child like it is very hard
to maintain any type of relationships
because as soon as you bring somebody
close you might be worried that they
hurt you because a lot of people with
BPD they might have been sexually abused
by a very close family member and that's
why that's splitting or black and white
thinking which I talked about in my
other video often occurs because it's
very hard to identify is this person
good or bad like for example if a if a
young boy or a young girl was molested
by their father right like this father
might be taking care of them and paying
the bills and buying them things but on
the other hand they were abusing them
you see what I'm saying so they know
good version and bad version and what
happens is that they develop this in
their mind and all people start
flip-flopping through these categories
you know what I mean so anyways those
are the three causes of borderline
personality disorder and I do have some
more videos coming out this week about
this but if you have any suggestions or
questions that you have about borderline
that you would like me to do a video on
I don't have them planned out yet go
ahead and leave them down in the
comments below because I am here to
serve you you beautiful subscribers out
there alright anyways again share this
video help people understand how BPD
actually
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