TIL that 1.6% of the general population has Borderline Personality Disorder: a disorder that is characterized by hypersensitivity to rejection and resulting instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, affect and behavior.

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  2. People with this condition are wreckers. Long before the individual gets a diagnosis, every relationship around them — family, work, friendships — will be a smoking ruin, even as nobody suspects the real cause. Once you’ve seen this happen, that pattern alone can be diagnostic, but until you do it’s just a mystery of endless misery.

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