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BPD: Borderline Personality Disorder. Its name came from the belief that it is on the borderline of neurosis and psychosis.
Disability: a physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities.
Identity disturbance: This is a term used to describe a distorted and/or inconsistent sense of self, which is something BPD can cause.
Neurodivergent/Neuroatypical: (sometimes seen as ND) This is used to describe someone whose brain functions in ways that diverge (or deviate) significantly from the dominant societal standards of “normal.”
Neurotypical: (Short for Neurologically Typical, and often shortened as NT.) This term originated in the autistic community, it is used to describe someone who is not autistic or characterized by any other neurologically atypical patterns of though or behavior.
Favorite Person: (shortened to FP) Someone who is usually being idealized and/or imprinted on. Often, someone with BPD feels incredibly dependent on this person and will put their needs before their own. This is also sometimes described as a “depended,” but that term is specific to Dependent Personality Disorder.
Imprinting: This is very common with BPD. The person being imprinted on is often a favorite person. Imprinting may occur when someone shows any sort of affection/support. Imprinting causes an individual to become an object of habitual trust. It is a deep emotional attachment that causes one to think about someone non-stop, need/crave constant contact with them, desperately need to please them, and become irrationally jealous/upset when they interact with/talk about someone else.
Mirroring: This is often considered as another form of imprinting. This involves picking up traits of another person/wanting to be like them. This desire can cause one to change their appearance, interests/hobbies, and the way they talk/act.
Idealization: (Similar to imprinting.) Idealization is believing that everything a person does is good and right and putting that person on pedestal. Imprinting can be dangerous because it causes one to ignore the bad in someone and only see the good. Someone who is idealized also often referred to as a FP.
Devaluation: Devaluation is the opposite of idealization. While it can happen randomly, it is often triggered by someone not meeting the idealized expectations of them. The idealization feelings of intense love can quickly turn to revulsion. This, like idealization, can be good or bad. It can cause one to unnecessarily end a relationship, but can also push someone to get out of a bad relationship.
Splitting: Individuals with BPD tend to assume people, including themselves, are either good or bad, with no in between (also known as black-or-white thinking, or all-or-nothing thinking). When someone says they “split” on someone, it means their perception of whether that person is good or bad has changed. It is most commonly used negatively when devaluation of someone who was once idealized has occurred, but splitting can also mean someone who was once devalued has now been idealized. This can happen randomly or be triggered. An example of triggered splitting would be the following: splitting on a friend who hasn’t texted you back because an extreme fear of abandonment cause by BPD or splitting on that friend again because they show you some sort of affection.
Dissociation/Depersonalization/Derealization: Dissociation is commonly described as a detachment from emotions or even the body. Depersonalization and derealization are types of dissociation, but all three words are often used interchangeably because they are all very similar when experienced. Derealization is when one is unable to tell whether the world around them is real. Depersonalization is when one is unable to determine whether they themselves are real. Depersonalization is often described as an out of body experience and is normally what people think of when they think of dissociation.
Emotional permanence: Emotional permanence (similar to object permanence) is the understanding of emotional constancy in relationships; meaning that emotions/abstract concepts continue to exist when they cannot be observed. People with BPD lack emotional object permanence, (think of it as a sort of “out of sight, out of mind!” mentality) which causes a strong need for emotional reassurance. This lack of emotional permanence is most likely caused by the intense fear of abandonment people with BPD experience.
“—” Functioning: High functioning means that your symptoms do not effect your every day life much. Low functioning means that your symptoms cause a lot of adversity in your life and inhibit your every day functioning. This idea is problematic to some because it can seem invalidating. (Everyone experiences symptoms and symptom severity differently, so no matter how little or much you experience symptoms, you are valid!)
Intrusive thoughts: Intrusive thoughts are unwanted, annoying, obsessive, and often frightening thoughts. They can sometimes be about what might happen to someone or a person they care about, or they can be about what someone might do to themselves or someone else. These are not the only type of intrusive thoughts though! It’s just any obsessive thought.
Spoons: This term comes from the spoon theory. It is an analogy for energy used to easily describe what being chronically ill/disabled is like to someone who is able-bodied/healthy. Everyone gets a certain amount of “spoons” a day, and different activities cost different amounts of “spoons.” For chronically ill/disabled people, the amount of spoons they start the day with will most likely be less than someone who is able-bodied/healthy. The theory highlights how little energy disabled/chronically ill people have when compared to able-bodied/healthy people, how much more energy things can cost, and how careful they have to be in prioritizing what they spend that energy on. Someone saying they are “low on spoons” means they do not have a lot of energy due to their disability/chronic illness.
While SBD doesn’t like the use of the terms “high functioning” and “low functioning” because it’s really just shorthand for whether or not someone “passes” as neurotypical, everything else on here is really great and informative.
-Mea
BPD: Borderline Personality Disorder. Its name came from the belief that it is on the borderline of neurosis and psychosis.
Disability: a physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities.
Identity disturbance: This is a term used to describe a distorted and/or inconsistent sense of self, which is something BPD can cause.
Neurodivergent/Neuroatypical: (sometimes seen as ND) This is used to describe someone whose brain functions in ways that diverge (or deviate) significantly from the dominant societal standards of “normal.”
Neurotypical: (Short for Neurologically Typical, and often shortened as NT.) This term originated in the autistic community, it is used to describe someone who is not autistic or characterized by any other neurologically atypical patterns of though or behavior.
Favorite Person: (shortened to FP) Someone who is usually being idealized and/or imprinted on. Often, someone with BPD feels incredibly dependent on this person and will put their needs before their own. This is also sometimes described as a “depended,” but that term is specific to Dependent Personality Disorder.
Imprinting: This is very common with BPD. The person being imprinted on is often a favorite person. Imprinting may occur when someone shows any sort of affection/support. Imprinting causes an individual to become an object of habitual trust. It is a deep emotional attachment that causes one to think about someone non-stop, need/crave constant contact with them, desperately need to please them, and become irrationally jealous/upset when they interact with/talk about someone else.
Mirroring: This is often considered as another form of imprinting. This involves picking up traits of another person/wanting to be like them. This desire can cause one to change their appearance, interests/hobbies, and the way they talk/act.
Idealization: (Similar to imprinting.) Idealization is believing that everything a person does is good and right and putting that person on pedestal. Imprinting can be dangerous because it causes one to ignore the bad in someone and only see the good. Someone who is idealized also often referred to as a FP.
Devaluation: Devaluation is the opposite of idealization. While it can happen randomly, it is often triggered by someone not meeting the idealized expectations of them. The idealization feelings of intense love can quickly turn to revulsion. This, like idealization, can be good or bad. It can cause one to unnecessarily end a relationship, but can also push someone to get out of a bad relationship.
Splitting: Individuals with BPD tend to assume people, including themselves, are either good or bad, with no in between (also known as black-or-white thinking, or all-or-nothing thinking). When someone says they “split” on someone, it means their perception of whether that person is good or bad has changed. It is most commonly used negatively when devaluation of someone who was once idealized has occurred, but splitting can also mean someone who was once devalued has now been idealized. This can happen randomly or be triggered. An example of triggered splitting would be the following: splitting on a friend who hasn’t texted you back because an extreme fear of abandonment cause by BPD or splitting on that friend again because they show you some sort of affection.
Dissociation/Depersonalization/Derealization: Dissociation is commonly described as a detachment from emotions or even the body. Depersonalization and derealization are types of dissociation, but all three words are often used interchangeably because they are all very similar when experienced. Derealization is when one is unable to tell whether the world around them is real. Depersonalization is when one is unable to determine whether they themselves are real. Depersonalization is often described as an out of body experience and is normally what people think of when they think of dissociation.
Emotional permanence: Emotional permanence (similar to object permanence) is the understanding of emotional constancy in relationships; meaning that emotions/abstract concepts continue to exist when they cannot be observed. People with BPD lack emotional object permanence, (think of it as a sort of “out of sight, out of mind!” mentality) which causes a strong need for emotional reassurance. This lack of emotional permanence is most likely caused by the intense fear of abandonment people with BPD experience.
“—” Functioning: High functioning means that your symptoms do not effect your every day life much. Low functioning means that your symptoms cause a lot of adversity in your life and inhibit your every day functioning. This idea is problematic to some because it can seem invalidating. (Everyone experiences symptoms and symptom severity differently, so no matter how little or much you experience symptoms, you are valid!)
Intrusive thoughts: Intrusive thoughts are unwanted, annoying, obsessive, and often frightening thoughts. They can sometimes be about what might happen to someone or a person they care about, or they can be about what someone might do to themselves or someone else. These are not the only type of intrusive thoughts though! It’s just any obsessive thought.
Spoons: This term comes from the spoon theory. It is an analogy for energy used to easily describe what being chronically ill/disabled is like to someone who is able-bodied/healthy. Everyone gets a certain amount of “spoons” a day, and different activities cost different amounts of “spoons.” For chronically ill/disabled people, the amount of spoons they start the day with will most likely be less than someone who is able-bodied/healthy. The theory highlights how little energy disabled/chronically ill people have when compared to able-bodied/healthy people, how much more energy things can cost, and how careful they have to be in prioritizing what they spend that energy on. Someone saying they are “low on spoons” means they do not have a lot of energy due to their disability/chronic illness.
While SBD doesn’t like the use of the terms “high functioning” and “low functioning” because it’s really just shorthand for whether or not someone “passes” as neurotypical, everything else on here is really great and informative.
-Mea
