Borderline personality disorder BPD symptoms can affect your emotional state, your relationships , and your ability to control your behavior. So it's not surprising that BPD can also have a major impact on your sex life. While very few researchers have studied BPD and its effects on sexuality, more and more work is suggesting that people with BPD can experience several key difficulties with sex.
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A word that can invoke desire, nervousness, discomfort, fear, excitement and a whole host of other feelings in different people. Because sex can be such an intimate and pervasive part of being human, it only makes sense that our mental health can change how we relate to it. When you live with a mental illness like borderline personality disorder BPD , it can touch all aspects of your life — including your experiences in the bedroom. Maybe past sexual abuse or emotional trauma coupled with BPD symptoms makes you afraid of or disgusted by sex. To open up the discussion around this sensitive topic, we turned to our Mighty BPD community. We understand sex can be embarrassing to talk about, but please, if sex or lack of sex is adversely affecting your life because of BPD, talk to your partner, a trusted friend or medical professional. You deserve to get the support and help you need. I am not interested in it, or rarely am.
Health and wellness touch each of us differently. Today is the day , I thought on my 18th birthday. Naively optimistic, I felt relieved that I finally had the words to describe the mood swings, self-harm behaviors, bulimia, and intense emotions I experienced constantly. Yet the judgmental expression on her face led me to believe that my newfound sense of empowerment would be short-lived. They note around 75 percent of people who receive a BPD diagnosis are women. Research suggests biological and sociocultural factors may be the cause of this gap. They are:.
Surrounded by her colleagues - one was sat less than two metres away - the then year-old slowly slid her right hand up her skirt, down the front of her tights and gently began rubbing her clitoris. It gave me a thrill. Did Jenny have a problem? Despite the above anecdote providing what one assumes is ample evidence, it took her a while to come to terms with the fact that she did, in fact, have a sex addiction. While the causes are yet unknown, sex addiction is widely believed to derive from childhood or adolescence, often resulting from an early emotional or physical trauma, sexual abuse, neglect or depression. According to relationship counselling service Relate , sex addiction can be described as any sexual activity that feels 'out of control' and involves frequent self-destructive or high-risk activity that isn't 'emotionally fulfilling, that one is ashamed of and that one is unable to stop, despite it causing repeated problems'. For some addicts, as in Jenny's case, sexual compulsions can come at any moment and is commonly thought to be a way of anaesthetising or coping with negative thoughts and emotions. However - unlike alcohol, smoking or drugs - sex addiction or 'hypersexuality' as it's otherwise known is a contentious issue that is yet to be recognised by the medical and clinical community as a psychological compulsion. Rather, it is currently regarded as a chronic brain or borderline personality disorder.
