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Healing From Feelings of Emptiness
Overcoming Dissociative Identity Disorder
You’re at home along or sitting in the midst of a crowd of friends but still you feel a deep-seated lack of connection and profound feelings of emptiness. If you relate that sentence, this article is for you. We shall examine the painful emotions that often accompanies borderline personality disorder and dissociative identity disorder.
Emptiness and Borderline Personality Disorder
The mental health condition most related to having feelings of emptiness is borderline personality disorder. Therefore, I felt compelled to write a bit about it.
BPD often co-exists with dissociative identity disorder. That means that someone who has both gets a double whammy from feelings of worthlessness and loneliness.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental health condition that involves emotional instability and impulsive actions that are long-term. Those living with BPD have problems regulating their emotions and other symptoms including:
Unstable emotionally. People with BPD have unstable moods that make their mood swings unpredictable.
Self-Image issues. Feeling worthless and empty are symptoms of borderline personality disorder.
