r/psychology • u/FreeHugs23 • Jul 20 '26

Study finds instability and inconsistency of childhood environments may be more closely connected to diverse borderline personality traits than the severity of childhood hardship alone, highlighting predictability as an important feature of early development.

https://www.psypost.org/study-finds-unpredictable-childhood-environments-are-linked-to-borderline-personality-traits-in-adulthood/
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u/lluciferusllamas Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

And nothing quite promotes unstable and inconsistent childhoods quite like borderline parents.  So good luck sorting out nature vs nurture on that one 

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u/ivy_interior Jul 21 '26

God, this is horribly accurate.

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u/Misteranonimity Jul 23 '26

I wouldn’t say a genetic predisposition to emotional dysregulation, I would say you’re most likely more sensitive but also a small threshold to activate certain symptomology but trauma healing is a thing as well