Identity Disturbance in BPD

Identity Disturbance in BPD is not a lack of values or about “character flaws”. 87% of people diagnosed with BPD have arrested emotional development by or before the age of two. This “identity disturbance is a response to extreme adverse childhood experience that may begin in infancy.

Identity disturbance in BPD is a lack of known or defined self. People with untreated BPD cannot relate to self or others in any consistent or congruent way due to this loss of self that is termed “identity disturbance” These people have a fragmented ego to where they need to find that arrested emotional self in therapy.

Want or need to understand more about the truth and depth of identity disturbance in a loved one with BPD and how that effects you as someone e close to a person with BPD?

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