This week I am wrapping up at least for now my posts on borderline personality disorder or BPD, I will end this by sharing a few other physical symptoms someone with BPD may experience, may not will or do just may.
Digestive or stomach issues, this is because stress can affect a body’s digestive functioning as the gastrointestinal tract is sensitive to emotion. Anger, anxiety, sadness or elation can all trigger physical symptoms in the gut.
Muscle aches and pains, this is a common physical symptom of stress and anxiety as many with BPD experience high emotional stress due to rapid cycling moods.
They can also experience a psychogenic fever or high temperature due to chronic stress.
Lastly, we have chest pain and up to 25 percent of BPD sufferers will experience chest pain often so bad they feel like they are having a heart attack. It is often linked to panic attacks.
Dearest Jo-Anne,
It makes perfectly sense if there is so much anxiety and stress that other parts of the body get negatively affected by that.
Not everyone, even those without BPD, are able to control their emotions!
You surely did shed some well deserved light on the issue in general.
Hugs,
Mariette
It was through doing these posts that I have started to understand my sister Sue better, she is often physically unwell and I now think it is partly due to how her emotions are a rollercoaster
Absolutely!
Thank you so much for this series. It was very informative. ❤
Thank you for taking the time to drop by and read it