Re: Survival for non-BPD individuals

"They feel other people's emotions and feelings."
That's a very false statement. BPDs feel THIER OWN emtotions and feelings very intensley. They feel it with such intensity because its to the exclusion of all else. Yes, that includes other people's feelings. BPDs are not empaths. Empathy is about caring, feeling, and knowing what it is like for other people. BPDs (and all cluster B personality disorders) are crippled by an intense focus on the self. Their own emotions are thus magnified. One cannot be as self-centered as these people are and be empaths. They are intensely focused on their own dramas, their own pain, their own needs, their own emotions to such a pathologically instense degree that is clouds out reality, and it most definately crowds out their ability to percieve other people's feelings. They only feel their own. That is the crux of their dysfunction. It's the reason why their relationships are so fraught with problems. To say that they feel other people's feelings is such a joke! No, their focus is always turned inwardly into themselves. It's the defining trait that makes them BPD. Even after they've behaved abusively toward someone and are asked to be accountable for it...do they show empathy then? No, even then they remain self-centered. They will turn on the pity party and cry. But not tears for the other person they hurt, these are self pity tears for THEMSELVES. This shows extreme self-centeredness.

Please clarify more accurately. Extreme emotional volatility is NOT the same as being an empath. One is emotion for the self, the other is emotion and awareness extended towards others. These are OPPOSITE qualities, not similiar!

You will have a hard time finding anyone with a cluster B personality disorder (BPD, narcissist, sociopath) who is also an empath. It's an oxymoron. While some BPDs may harm themselves more than they harm others, unlike sociopaths who stictly harm others...in both cases the disordered person is extremely self-centered and incapable of extending true empathy to others. Its just that a BPD may turn their self-centeredness inward to such a degree they become suicidal. This doesn't mean they are more sensitive. It means their turning their selfishness INWARD instead of OUTWARD. It means they are harming themselves instead of abusing others. Both are born from intense self centered emotions. Its just that one acts it out on others and another acts it out on themselves. You have to be extremely, intensely self focused, self obsessed, self centered to attempt suicide. It's not a sign of your sensitivity, its a sign of a person who is turning their self centered emotions inward into themselves in an obsessive manner. You do not understand BPD if you think their emotional volatilty indicates they are senstive empaths. They cannot see beyond their own emotions to gauge the emotions of others. They are trapped in a self centered prison. Tweet