prologue; about BPD

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This fanfiction story includes a mental illness patient. Let's have a deeper look into the disorder that makes the plot evolve differently than it normally would.

Borderline Personality Disorder is a condition characterized by difficulties in regulating emotion. This difficulty leads to severe, unstable mood swings, impulsivity and instability, poor self-image and stormy personal relationships. People may make repeated attempts to avoid real or imagined situations of abandonment. The combined result of living with BPD can manifest into destructive behavior, such as self-harm (cutting) or suicide attempts.

People with BPD experience wide mood swings and can display a great sense of instability and insecurity.
Signs and symptoms may include :

• Frantic efforts to avoid being abandoned by friends and family.

• Unstable personal relationships that alternate between idealization - "I'm so in love!" and devaluation - "I hate her." This is also sometimes known as "splitting."

• Distorted and unstable self-image, which affects moods, values, opinions, goals and relationships.

• Impulsive behaviors that can have dangerous outcomes, such as excessive spending, unsafe sex, substance abuse or reckless driving.

• Suicidal and self-harming behavior.

• Periods of intense depressed mood, irritability or anxiety lasting a few hours to a few days.

• Chronic feelings of boredom or emptiness.

• Inappropriate, intense or uncontrollable anger - often followed by shame and guilt.

• Dissociative feelings, disconnecting from your thoughts or sense of identity, or "out of body" type of feelings and stress-related paranoid thoughts. Severe cases of stress can also lead to brief psychotic episodes.

Borderline personality disorder is ultimately characterized by the emotional turmoil it causes. People who have it feel emotions intensely and for long periods of time, and it is harder for them to return to a stable baseline after an emotionally intense event. Suicide threats and attempts are very common for people with BPD. Self-harming acts, such as cutting and burning, are also common.

Now that you have taken a better look onto the mental illness that Jungkook is portrayed to be suffering from, it will be easier for you to understand the urges, motives that lead to actions of the character later on. Hope you enjoy the work of fiction 💕

Little note, this is my least favorite from my stories, there are surely typos and grammatical mistakes on top of the childish writing and focus on the fluff rather than the mental illness realism, I apologize if your expectations are high and you realize that this one is trash lmao. Definitely suggest you to skip to the second part of the story, Ephemeral

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