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The articles explain borderline personality disorder in understandable terms, and the discussion groups help to normalize the experiences of family members. [2] The site appeals to family members who care about someone with borderline personality disorder, but are frustrated with the relationship demands and conflict. [2] [5]
Narcissistic defenses are among the earliest defense mechanisms to emerge, and include denial, distortion, and projection. [4] Splitting is another defense mechanism prevalent among individuals with narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and antisocial personality disorder—seeing people and situations in black and white terms, either as all bad or all good.
Splitting is a relatively common defense mechanism for people with borderline personality disorder (BPD). [24] One of the DSM IV-TR criteria for this disorder is a description of splitting: "a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation".
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The defense that effects (brings about) this process is called splitting. Splitting is the tendency to view events or people as either all bad or all good. [ 1 ] When viewing people as all good, the individual is said to be using the defense mechanism idealization : a mental mechanism in which the person attributes exaggeratedly positive ...
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It was the third psychotic break that changed her life. After getting in a fight with her mother, Mar J took her car and drove from the Bronx to Queens, sleeping for several nights in shopping mall parking lots. She asked for jobs in fast-food restaurants and used their bathrooms to wash up. When the voices got too loud, she’d start driving ...