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What is the reason for people with BPD engaging in emotional avoidance behaviors?
What is the reason for people with BPD engaging in emotional avoidance behaviors?
- To maintain a false sense of internal security (correct)
- To express their emotions more effectively
- To intentionally harm themselves
- To seek attention from others
What can trigger emotional avoidance behaviors in people with BPD?
What can trigger emotional avoidance behaviors in people with BPD?
- Even trivial things (correct)
- Positive emotions
- Regular daily activities
- Only significant life events
How might partners and family members enable the BPD pattern?
How might partners and family members enable the BPD pattern?
- By behaving in ways that maintain the BPD person's emotional avoidance behaviors (correct)
- By criticizing the BPD person for their emotions
- By pushing the BPD person to express their emotions
- By ignoring the BPD person's emotions
Do emotional avoidance behaviors in BPD always involve cutting or threatening suicide?
Do emotional avoidance behaviors in BPD always involve cutting or threatening suicide?
Can emotional avoidance behaviors in BPD become an unconscious way of life?
Can emotional avoidance behaviors in BPD become an unconscious way of life?
What can be the result of emotional avoidance behaviors not solving problems or meeting essential needs in BPD?
What can be the result of emotional avoidance behaviors not solving problems or meeting essential needs in BPD?
Are emotional avoidance behaviors always bad in BPD?
Are emotional avoidance behaviors always bad in BPD?
What can overwhelming life stresses result in for people with BPD?
What can overwhelming life stresses result in for people with BPD?
How can the need to avoid painful emotions affect problem-solving processes in BPD?
How can the need to avoid painful emotions affect problem-solving processes in BPD?
When can the urge to give up on life become potent for people with BPD?
When can the urge to give up on life become potent for people with BPD?
What can feelings of shame lead to in people with BPD?
What can feelings of shame lead to in people with BPD?
What can help people with BPD effectively solve life problems and manage emotional struggles?
What can help people with BPD effectively solve life problems and manage emotional struggles?
What is the reason for people with BPD engaging in emotional avoidance behaviors?
What is the reason for people with BPD engaging in emotional avoidance behaviors?
What can trigger emotional avoidance behaviors in people with BPD?
What can trigger emotional avoidance behaviors in people with BPD?
How might partners and family members enable the BPD pattern?
How might partners and family members enable the BPD pattern?
Do emotional avoidance behaviors in BPD always involve cutting or threatening suicide?
Do emotional avoidance behaviors in BPD always involve cutting or threatening suicide?
Can emotional avoidance behaviors in BPD become an unconscious way of life?
Can emotional avoidance behaviors in BPD become an unconscious way of life?
What can be the result of emotional avoidance behaviors not solving problems or meeting essential needs in BPD?
What can be the result of emotional avoidance behaviors not solving problems or meeting essential needs in BPD?
Are emotional avoidance behaviors always bad in BPD?
Are emotional avoidance behaviors always bad in BPD?
What can overwhelming life stresses result in for people with BPD?
What can overwhelming life stresses result in for people with BPD?
How can the need to avoid painful emotions affect problem-solving processes in BPD?
How can the need to avoid painful emotions affect problem-solving processes in BPD?
When can the urge to give up on life become potent for people with BPD?
When can the urge to give up on life become potent for people with BPD?
What can feelings of shame lead to in people with BPD?
What can feelings of shame lead to in people with BPD?
What can help people with BPD effectively solve life problems and manage emotional struggles?
What can help people with BPD effectively solve life problems and manage emotional struggles?
What is the reason behind people with BPD engaging in emotional avoidance behaviors?
What is the reason behind people with BPD engaging in emotional avoidance behaviors?
What triggers emotional avoidance behaviors in people with BPD?
What triggers emotional avoidance behaviors in people with BPD?
What role do partners and family members play in maintaining emotional avoidance behaviors in people with BPD?
What role do partners and family members play in maintaining emotional avoidance behaviors in people with BPD?
Do emotional avoidance behaviors in BPD always involve cutting or threatening suicide?
Do emotional avoidance behaviors in BPD always involve cutting or threatening suicide?
Can emotional avoidance behaviors become an unconscious way of life for people with BPD?
Can emotional avoidance behaviors become an unconscious way of life for people with BPD?
Do emotional avoidance behaviors always solve problems or meet essential needs?
Do emotional avoidance behaviors always solve problems or meet essential needs?
Are emotional avoidance behaviors always bad for people with BPD?
Are emotional avoidance behaviors always bad for people with BPD?
What can overwhelming life stresses result in for people with BPD?
What can overwhelming life stresses result in for people with BPD?
Can the need to avoid painful emotions high-jack problem-solving processes for people with BPD?
Can the need to avoid painful emotions high-jack problem-solving processes for people with BPD?
What can happen when a person with BPD does not understand themselves and their emotional struggles?
What can happen when a person with BPD does not understand themselves and their emotional struggles?
What feelings can be some of the most difficult to endure for people with BPD?
What feelings can be some of the most difficult to endure for people with BPD?
What can help people with BPD effectively solve life problems and manage emotional struggles?
What can help people with BPD effectively solve life problems and manage emotional struggles?
Study Notes
Understanding Emotional Avoidance Behaviors in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
- People with BPD often engage in emotional avoidance behaviors to maintain a false sense of internal security by avoiding unwanted emotions.
- Emotional avoidance behaviors can be triggered by even trivial things, leading to knee-jerk reactions like aggression or passive-aggression.
- Partners and family members may enable the BPD pattern by behaving in ways that maintain the BPD person's emotional avoidance behaviors.
- Emotional avoidance behaviors in BPD can be subtle and not necessarily involve cutting or threatening suicide.
- Emotional avoidance behaviors can be mildly or severely destructive and can become an unconscious way of life.
- Emotional avoidance behaviors may not solve problems or meet essential needs, leading to life dysfunction and lost connections.
- Emotional avoidance behaviors are not always bad, but if an emotion makes sense for a situation, one should take responsibility to "feel through" it.
- Overwhelming life stresses can result in judgments of self-worthlessness and more emotional avoidance behaviors.
- Problem-solving processes can be "high-jacked" by the need to avoid painful emotions, leading to ineffective or unsolved life problems.
- The urge to give up on life can become potent when a person with BPD does not understand themselves and their emotional struggles.
- Feelings of shame can be some of the most difficult to endure, leading to the persistence of shame feelings and the urge to give up on life.
- Emotional awareness and mastery can help people with BPD effectively solve life problems and manage emotional struggles.
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