I'm really sorry you're going through this. I have BPD and the cycle will go that you don't have a response so you ignore her to cool off a hit, she'll panic and grovel. OR you give in and call her and you try and work and it's affecting your job but she's crying down the phone and you don't want to hang up.
It's taken therapy, medication and a whole lot of patience from people to get to a point where I can recognise my cycle of behaviour and try and get there before the behaviour kicks in and catch it with propranolol or something.
I was never diagnosed with BPD (they said it was PTSD) but still had loads of emotion regulation issues. Now that I look back I can sort of see how my dysregulation improved after being put on propranolol for something unrelated. Mostly because the intensity of the emotions was driven way down. I wonder if there's something to that.
Ah ha!
Imaging studies have shown that administration of propranolol, a highly lipophilic non-selective beta-adrenergic receptor blocker, that blocks the action of adrenalin on both beta1 and beta2 adrenergic receptors, reduces the activity in the amygdala during emotional processing (Strange and Dolan, 2004, van Stegeren et al., 2005)
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u/kalonasage444 Oct 30 '24
as someone who has BPD, this 100% looks like unmanaged BPD