> "It is important to be self-aware about what loneliness does to your brain — that it primes it to be hypervigilant to threats and go into self-preservation mode. Feeling lonely might mean you need to reinterpret your view of your social interactions, says Dr. Cacioppo. For example, if you feel a friend has slighted you, ask yourself if you were actually hostile and in an isolation mode first and your friend is reacting to your behavior. “You need to understand that you may be responsible,” says Dr. Cacioppo."
Interesting. This suggestion sounds very similar to advice given to those diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (a condition that's thus far resisted all attempts at being renamed "emotional dysregulation disorder"). Recent research seems to indicate that the defining features of BPD are: 1) the presence of emotions that are disproportionately negative and intense for the situations that caused them and 2) an inability to subdue those negative emotions and alleviate anxiety.
In other words, if a family member routinely says "I love you" at the end of every phone call but forgets to say it one time, then there's a decent chance that someone with BPD would start wondering if their relative hates them for some reason.
Interesting. This suggestion sounds very similar to advice given to those diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (a condition that's thus far resisted all attempts at being renamed "emotional dysregulation disorder"). Recent research seems to indicate that the defining features of BPD are: 1) the presence of emotions that are disproportionately negative and intense for the situations that caused them and 2) an inability to subdue those negative emotions and alleviate anxiety.
In other words, if a family member routinely says "I love you" at the end of every phone call but forgets to say it one time, then there's a decent chance that someone with BPD would start wondering if their relative hates them for some reason.