Rollercoaster of emotions

Love today, hate tomorrow: life with borderliners

Borderline sufferers act with excessive emotionality.

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First full adoration, then total devaluation and then drama about how you shouldn't leave him, even though that was never the intention: do you know this from your partner? Has he or she been diagnosed with Boderline? Then you've not had an easy time of it. What do you need to look out for and how can you protect yourself? We have all the information for you here!

Around three percent of the population are borderliners. How does this personality disorder manifest itself in those affected? "They act with excessive emotionality," explains psychotherapist Wolfgang Schimböck, "and this tendency towards strong and uncontrollable mood swings is then often expressed in violent outbursts of anger. Sometimes all it takes is a 'crooked match'."