My mom is undiagnosed BPD. Married and divorced 4 times.

The 4th husband married her because she told him she had cancer (She didn't. Just some benign fibroid tumors in her uterus.) and she was unemployed and he wanted her to have health insurance. I guess at some point he figured it out and filed for divorce. This was the first time one of her husbands wanted a divorce and she didn't, so it threw her into a tailspin.

The estranged husband called me one day after they had split because someone found her wandering around her neighborhood incoherently. She was lucid enough to tell the person that found her to call the recent ex-husband (I'm sure it was planned, for sympathy). He was beyond done with her at that point, so he called me to deal with it. She had just taken too much of whatever medication she was on and was loopy.

I don't know of anyone who has BPD and is not an absolute trainwreck. Bipolar people can absolutely function and thrive with proper medication and treatment.

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Posted by Sam Quint

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Posted on 12/4/23 at 4:01 pm to ILurkThereforeIAm

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I don't know of anyone who has BPD and is not an absolute trainwreck

low functioning borderlines are the ones like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction who will go absolutely bonkers on you. they're much more obvious with their actions, but they can also be dangerous.

high functioning or "quiet" borderlines are much harder to spot, and even if you have suspicions, there's no real way of confirming in most cases. and until you figure out how they work, think, and act you will undoubtedly be pushed to the edge of your own sanity trying to understand what the frick is going on. and then even once you've got it somewhat figured out, you will still be driven to teh edge of your own sanity trying to manage them.

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