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Impulsivity
Frequently accompanied by depression, anxiety, anger, substance abuse or rage
The most distinguishing symptoms of BPD are marked sensitivity to rejection, negative criticism, and thoughts and fears of possible abandonment.[9] Overall, the features of BPD include unusually intense sensitivity in relationships with others, difficulty regulating emotions, and impulsivity. Other symptoms may include feeling unsure of one's personal identity and values, having paranoid thoughts when feeling stressed, and severe dissociation.[9]
Emotions
People with BPD feel emotions more easily, more deeply, and for longer than others do.[10][11] Emotions may repeatedly resurge and persist a long time.[11] Consequently, it may take longer than normal for people with BPD to return to a stable emotional baseline following an intense emotional experience.[12]
In Marsha Linehan's view, the sensitivity, intensity, and duration with which people with BPD feel emotions have both positive and negative effects.[12] People with BPD are often exceptionally enthusiastic, idealistic, joyful, and loving.[13] However, they may feel overwhelmed by negative emotions, experiencing intense grief instead of sadness, shame and humiliation instead of mild embarrassment, rage instead of annoyance, and panic instead of nervousness.[13] People with BPD are especially sensitive to feelings of rejection, criticism, isolation, and perceived failure.[14] Before learning other coping mechanisms, their efforts to manage or escape from their intense negative emotions may lead to self-injury or suicidal behavior.[15] They are often aware of the intensity of their negative emotional reactions and, since they cannot regulate them, they shut them down entirely.[12] This can be harmful to people with BPD, since negative emotions alert people to the presence of a problematic situation and move them to address it.[12]
While people with BPD feel joy intensely, they are especially prone to dysphoria, or feelings of mental and emotional distress. Zanarini et al. recognize four categories of dysphoria that are typical of this condition: extreme emotions, destructiveness or self-destructiveness, feeling fragmented or lacking identity, and feelings of victimization.[16] Within these categories, a BPD diagnosis is strongly associated with a combination of three specific states: feeling betrayed, "feeling like hurting myself", and feeling out of control.[16] Since there is great variety in the types of dysphoria experienced by people with BPD, the amplitude of the distress is a helpful indicator of borderline personality disorder.[16]
In addition to intense emotions, people with BPD experience emotional lability, or changeability. Although the term suggests rapid changes between depression and elation, the mood swings in people with this condition actually occur more frequently between anger and anxiety and between depression and anxiety.[17]
As an Uchiha, Obito definitely suffered from extreme emotions. His fall was brought on by the intense love he felt for Rin, and throughout much of the story line, when he was not emotionally flat he was shown being very intense, such as during the final battle of the Shinobi World War. His speech to Madara seemed to imply that he had identity issues as well. In regards to intense negative reactions....well, you can ask the Mist Ninja about that.
Behavior
Impulsive behavior is common, including substance or alcohol abuse, eating disorders, unprotected *** or indiscriminate *** with multiple partners, reckless spending, and reckless driving.[18] Impulsive behavior may also include leaving jobs or relationships, running away, and self-injury.[19]
People with BPD act impulsively because it gives them immediate relief from their emotional pain.[19] However, in the long term, people with BPD suffer increased pain from the shame and guilt that follow such actions.[19] A cycle often begins in which people with BPD feel emotional pain, engage in impulsive behavior to relieve that pain, feel shame and guilt over their actions, feel emotional pain from the shame and guilt, and then experience stronger urges to engage in impulsive behavior to relieve the new pain.[19] As time goes on, impulsive behavior may become an automatic response to emotional pain.[19]
Obito became very impulsive during the war arc. Going from killing Fu and Torune and threatening Kabuto, to brutally attacking the SA to prove a point to Naruto. He also displayed impulsive behaviors during childhood.
Self-harm and suicide
Self-harming or suicidal behavior is one of the core diagnostic criteria in the DSM IV-TR. Management of and recovery from this behavior can be complex and challenging.[20] The lifetime risk of suicide among people with BPD is between 3% and 10%.[9][21] There is evidence that men diagnosed with BPD are approximately twice as likely to commit suicide as women diagnosed with BPD.[22] There is also evidence that a considerable percentage of men who commit suicide may have undiagnosed BPD.[23]
Self-injury is common and may take place with or without suicidal intent.[24][25] The reported reasons for non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) differ from the reasons for suicide attempts.[15] Reasons for NSSI include expressing anger, self-punishment, generating normal feelings (often in response to dissociation), and distracting oneself from emotional pain or difficult circumstances.[15] In contrast, suicide attempts typically reflect a belief that others will be better off following the suicide.[15] Both suicidal and non-suicidal self-injury are a response to feeling negative emotions.[15]
Sexual abuse can be a particular trigger for suicidal behavior in adolescents with BPD tendencies.[26]
One factor that may hurt the idea that he suffered from BPD is the fact that he is never shown engaging in self harm or attempting suicide, however, the puppet seal Madara placed on him was specifically to prevent him from committing suicide (as well as stop him from becoming the Juubi's jinchuriki) so make of that what you will.
Interpersonal relationships
People with BPD can be very sensitive to the way others treat them, feeling intense joy and gratitude at perceived expressions of kindness, and intense sadness or anger at perceived criticism or hurtfulness.[27] Their feelings about others often shift from positive to negative after a disappointment, a perceived threat of losing someone, or a perceived loss of esteem in the eyes of someone they value. This phenomenon, sometimes called splitting or black-and-white thinking, includes a shift from idealizing others (feeling admiration and love) to devaluing them (feeling anger or dislike).[28] Combined with mood disturbances, idealization and devaluation can undermine relationships with family, friends, and co-workers.[29] Self-image can also change rapidly from positive to negative.
While strongly desiring intimacy, people with BPD tend toward insecure, avoidant or ambivalent, or fearfully preoccupied attachment patterns in relationships,[30] and they often view the world as dangerous and malevolent.[27] BPD is linked to increased levels of chronic stress and conflict in romantic relationships, decreased satisfaction of romantic partners, abuse, and unwanted pregnancy. However, these factors appear to be linked to personality disorders in general.[31]
Manipulation to obtain nurturance is considered to be a common feature of BPD by many who treat the disorder, as well as by the DSM-IV.[32][33] However, some mental health professionals caution that an overemphasis on, and an overly broad definition of, manipulation can lead to misunderstanding and prejudicial treatment of people with BPD within the health care system.[34] (See Manipulative behavior and Stigma under Controversies.)
This is displayed frequently with Obito. As a child he had a clear obsession with how Rin viewed him, and went on to consider Kakashi one of his best friends just about the first time they got along. While Obito didn't seem as obsessive about Minato, he clearly displayed the phenomena of "black-white" thinking with him, quickly shifting from seeing him as a father figure to decide he no longer mattered and attempting to kill him. Obito also displayed manipulative tendencies while acting as Tobi.
Sense of self
People with BPD tend to have trouble seeing a clear picture of their identity. In particular, they tend to have difficulty knowing what they value, believe, prefer, and enjoy. They are often unsure about their long-term goals for relationships and jobs. This difficulty with knowing who they are and what they value can cause people with BPD to experience feeling "empty" and "lost".
Discarding his identity as Obito to pursue the Moon's Eye Plan as Madara would count as having a pretty unsteady picture of his own identity. In regards to goals, the only goal that remained consistent was his dedication to the IT, other than that he had seemingly conflicting goals, such as his random obsession with Sasuke (that wound up leading nowhere) and personally infiltrating his own organization. This can also be seen in Sasuke and his rapidly changing goals throughout the story.
Cognitions
The often intense emotions experienced by people with BPD can make it difficult for them to control the focus of their attention—to concentrate. In addition, people with BPD may tend to dissociate, which can be thought of as an intense form of "zoning out". Dissociation often occurs in response to experiencing a painful event (or experiencing something that triggers the memory of a painful event). It involves the mind automatically redirecting attention away from that event, presumably to protect against experiencing intense emotion and unwanted behavioral impulses that such emotion might otherwise trigger. Although the mind's habit of blocking out intense painful emotions may provide temporary relief, it can also have the unwanted side effect of blocking or blunting the experience of ordinary emotions, reducing the access of people with BPD to the information contained in those emotions, which helps guide effective decision-making in daily life. Sometimes, it is possible for another person to tell when someone with BPD is dissociating, because their facial or vocal expressions may become flat or expressionless, or they may appear to be distracted; at other times, dissociation may be barely noticeable.
This one is pretty easy, the Moon's Eye Plan can almost be seen as one long dissociative event in regards to Rin's death, not to mention, Obito seemed to be pretty flat emotionally for the most part while under the guise of Madara. This sort of dissociation can be seen in other Uchiha, such as the consistently flat emotional state of Sasuke.
What do you think?
Frequently accompanied by depression, anxiety, anger, substance abuse or rage
The most distinguishing symptoms of BPD are marked sensitivity to rejection, negative criticism, and thoughts and fears of possible abandonment.[9] Overall, the features of BPD include unusually intense sensitivity in relationships with others, difficulty regulating emotions, and impulsivity. Other symptoms may include feeling unsure of one's personal identity and values, having paranoid thoughts when feeling stressed, and severe dissociation.[9]
Emotions
People with BPD feel emotions more easily, more deeply, and for longer than others do.[10][11] Emotions may repeatedly resurge and persist a long time.[11] Consequently, it may take longer than normal for people with BPD to return to a stable emotional baseline following an intense emotional experience.[12]
In Marsha Linehan's view, the sensitivity, intensity, and duration with which people with BPD feel emotions have both positive and negative effects.[12] People with BPD are often exceptionally enthusiastic, idealistic, joyful, and loving.[13] However, they may feel overwhelmed by negative emotions, experiencing intense grief instead of sadness, shame and humiliation instead of mild embarrassment, rage instead of annoyance, and panic instead of nervousness.[13] People with BPD are especially sensitive to feelings of rejection, criticism, isolation, and perceived failure.[14] Before learning other coping mechanisms, their efforts to manage or escape from their intense negative emotions may lead to self-injury or suicidal behavior.[15] They are often aware of the intensity of their negative emotional reactions and, since they cannot regulate them, they shut them down entirely.[12] This can be harmful to people with BPD, since negative emotions alert people to the presence of a problematic situation and move them to address it.[12]
While people with BPD feel joy intensely, they are especially prone to dysphoria, or feelings of mental and emotional distress. Zanarini et al. recognize four categories of dysphoria that are typical of this condition: extreme emotions, destructiveness or self-destructiveness, feeling fragmented or lacking identity, and feelings of victimization.[16] Within these categories, a BPD diagnosis is strongly associated with a combination of three specific states: feeling betrayed, "feeling like hurting myself", and feeling out of control.[16] Since there is great variety in the types of dysphoria experienced by people with BPD, the amplitude of the distress is a helpful indicator of borderline personality disorder.[16]
In addition to intense emotions, people with BPD experience emotional lability, or changeability. Although the term suggests rapid changes between depression and elation, the mood swings in people with this condition actually occur more frequently between anger and anxiety and between depression and anxiety.[17]
As an Uchiha, Obito definitely suffered from extreme emotions. His fall was brought on by the intense love he felt for Rin, and throughout much of the story line, when he was not emotionally flat he was shown being very intense, such as during the final battle of the Shinobi World War. His speech to Madara seemed to imply that he had identity issues as well. In regards to intense negative reactions....well, you can ask the Mist Ninja about that.
Behavior
Impulsive behavior is common, including substance or alcohol abuse, eating disorders, unprotected *** or indiscriminate *** with multiple partners, reckless spending, and reckless driving.[18] Impulsive behavior may also include leaving jobs or relationships, running away, and self-injury.[19]
People with BPD act impulsively because it gives them immediate relief from their emotional pain.[19] However, in the long term, people with BPD suffer increased pain from the shame and guilt that follow such actions.[19] A cycle often begins in which people with BPD feel emotional pain, engage in impulsive behavior to relieve that pain, feel shame and guilt over their actions, feel emotional pain from the shame and guilt, and then experience stronger urges to engage in impulsive behavior to relieve the new pain.[19] As time goes on, impulsive behavior may become an automatic response to emotional pain.[19]
Obito became very impulsive during the war arc. Going from killing Fu and Torune and threatening Kabuto, to brutally attacking the SA to prove a point to Naruto. He also displayed impulsive behaviors during childhood.
Self-harm and suicide
Self-harming or suicidal behavior is one of the core diagnostic criteria in the DSM IV-TR. Management of and recovery from this behavior can be complex and challenging.[20] The lifetime risk of suicide among people with BPD is between 3% and 10%.[9][21] There is evidence that men diagnosed with BPD are approximately twice as likely to commit suicide as women diagnosed with BPD.[22] There is also evidence that a considerable percentage of men who commit suicide may have undiagnosed BPD.[23]
Self-injury is common and may take place with or without suicidal intent.[24][25] The reported reasons for non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) differ from the reasons for suicide attempts.[15] Reasons for NSSI include expressing anger, self-punishment, generating normal feelings (often in response to dissociation), and distracting oneself from emotional pain or difficult circumstances.[15] In contrast, suicide attempts typically reflect a belief that others will be better off following the suicide.[15] Both suicidal and non-suicidal self-injury are a response to feeling negative emotions.[15]
Sexual abuse can be a particular trigger for suicidal behavior in adolescents with BPD tendencies.[26]
One factor that may hurt the idea that he suffered from BPD is the fact that he is never shown engaging in self harm or attempting suicide, however, the puppet seal Madara placed on him was specifically to prevent him from committing suicide (as well as stop him from becoming the Juubi's jinchuriki) so make of that what you will.
Interpersonal relationships
People with BPD can be very sensitive to the way others treat them, feeling intense joy and gratitude at perceived expressions of kindness, and intense sadness or anger at perceived criticism or hurtfulness.[27] Their feelings about others often shift from positive to negative after a disappointment, a perceived threat of losing someone, or a perceived loss of esteem in the eyes of someone they value. This phenomenon, sometimes called splitting or black-and-white thinking, includes a shift from idealizing others (feeling admiration and love) to devaluing them (feeling anger or dislike).[28] Combined with mood disturbances, idealization and devaluation can undermine relationships with family, friends, and co-workers.[29] Self-image can also change rapidly from positive to negative.
While strongly desiring intimacy, people with BPD tend toward insecure, avoidant or ambivalent, or fearfully preoccupied attachment patterns in relationships,[30] and they often view the world as dangerous and malevolent.[27] BPD is linked to increased levels of chronic stress and conflict in romantic relationships, decreased satisfaction of romantic partners, abuse, and unwanted pregnancy. However, these factors appear to be linked to personality disorders in general.[31]
Manipulation to obtain nurturance is considered to be a common feature of BPD by many who treat the disorder, as well as by the DSM-IV.[32][33] However, some mental health professionals caution that an overemphasis on, and an overly broad definition of, manipulation can lead to misunderstanding and prejudicial treatment of people with BPD within the health care system.[34] (See Manipulative behavior and Stigma under Controversies.)
This is displayed frequently with Obito. As a child he had a clear obsession with how Rin viewed him, and went on to consider Kakashi one of his best friends just about the first time they got along. While Obito didn't seem as obsessive about Minato, he clearly displayed the phenomena of "black-white" thinking with him, quickly shifting from seeing him as a father figure to decide he no longer mattered and attempting to kill him. Obito also displayed manipulative tendencies while acting as Tobi.
Sense of self
People with BPD tend to have trouble seeing a clear picture of their identity. In particular, they tend to have difficulty knowing what they value, believe, prefer, and enjoy. They are often unsure about their long-term goals for relationships and jobs. This difficulty with knowing who they are and what they value can cause people with BPD to experience feeling "empty" and "lost".
Discarding his identity as Obito to pursue the Moon's Eye Plan as Madara would count as having a pretty unsteady picture of his own identity. In regards to goals, the only goal that remained consistent was his dedication to the IT, other than that he had seemingly conflicting goals, such as his random obsession with Sasuke (that wound up leading nowhere) and personally infiltrating his own organization. This can also be seen in Sasuke and his rapidly changing goals throughout the story.
Cognitions
The often intense emotions experienced by people with BPD can make it difficult for them to control the focus of their attention—to concentrate. In addition, people with BPD may tend to dissociate, which can be thought of as an intense form of "zoning out". Dissociation often occurs in response to experiencing a painful event (or experiencing something that triggers the memory of a painful event). It involves the mind automatically redirecting attention away from that event, presumably to protect against experiencing intense emotion and unwanted behavioral impulses that such emotion might otherwise trigger. Although the mind's habit of blocking out intense painful emotions may provide temporary relief, it can also have the unwanted side effect of blocking or blunting the experience of ordinary emotions, reducing the access of people with BPD to the information contained in those emotions, which helps guide effective decision-making in daily life. Sometimes, it is possible for another person to tell when someone with BPD is dissociating, because their facial or vocal expressions may become flat or expressionless, or they may appear to be distracted; at other times, dissociation may be barely noticeable.
This one is pretty easy, the Moon's Eye Plan can almost be seen as one long dissociative event in regards to Rin's death, not to mention, Obito seemed to be pretty flat emotionally for the most part while under the guise of Madara. This sort of dissociation can be seen in other Uchiha, such as the consistently flat emotional state of Sasuke.
What do you think?
