Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It's like BPD, but without the psychotic temper tantrums. Most people with BPD have both. Both lack the skills to empathize.
No it's not. Psychosis is not amongst the diagnostic criteria for either disorder. Your claim about most people with BPD having NPD is not based in fact. The lack of empathy you describe is not a hallmark of BPD and is not amongst the diagnostic criteria. If you are gonna throw the labels around -doesn't hurt to check some facts first, particularly given the stigma experience by those who have been diagnosed with these disorders and the tendency for the masses to take the pseudo psychology as fact.
Narcissists are not always borderline disordered (they lack psychotic traits), but Borderlines are always narcissistic, as each lacks capacity for empathy. The Male Borderline by Shari Schreiber
Maybe you prefer the term "adult temper tantrum" rather than psychotic event. If I was going to throw a label around, it would be fucking monster. Don't talk to me about BPD stigma unless you've lived with someone who had it. There's hundreds of thousands of people with BPD in the US who are refusing therapy and who deny their illness, while they continue to destroy the lives of their loved ones. It takes years of therapy to get them better and unless you know what you're doing and you're emotionally strong so you can set healthy boundaries and take care of yourself (because they're damn sure not going to take care of you) they're going to drag you into their pit of misery and beat you down physically, emotionally, and/or psychologically until you're a shadow of your former self.
I would go with the same, a relationship with a BPD sufferer is intolerable. What is NPD?
Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It's like BPD, but without the psychotic temper tantrums. Most people with BPD have both. Both lack the skills to empathize.
No it's not. Psychosis is not amongst the diagnostic criteria for either disorder. Your claim about most people with BPD having NPD is not based in fact. The lack of empathy you describe is not a hallmark of BPD and is not amongst the diagnostic criteria. If you are gonna throw the labels around -doesn't hurt to check some facts first, particularly given the stigma experience by those who have been diagnosed with these disorders and the tendency for the masses to take the pseudo psychology as fact.
Maybe you prefer the term "adult temper tantrum" rather than psychotic event. If I was going to throw a label around, it would be fucking monster. Don't talk to me about BPD stigma unless you've lived with someone who had it. There's hundreds of thousands of people with BPD in the US who are refusing therapy and who deny their illness, while they continue to destroy the lives of their loved ones. It takes years of therapy to get them better and unless you know what you're doing and you're emotionally strong so you can set healthy boundaries and take care of yourself (because they're damn sure not going to take care of you) they're going to drag you into their pit of misery and beat you down physically, emotionally, and/or psychologically until you're a shadow of your former self.