Whats The Fine Line Between BPD and HPD? @ psychforums

"I can appear like a very confident and even narcissistic person some of the time. Beneath that are very deep seeded insecurities which are getting worse each day. I already know my personality is not the best [I'm not that smart] so I rely on my looks and fashion sense." - from 


"Also, although we do require constant attention, we don't necessarily need to be the centre of it and, because of our low self-esteem, we often dislike being the absolute centre. We aren't aiming for everyone to always look at it; we just want one person to always love us."

"Both have an extreme sensitivity to feedback, particularly anything that we interpret as negative, we constantly seek approval and we definitely both have monumental and seemingly random (to non's) emotional shifts. HPD's hate it because it takes away from their limelight, and BDP's hate it because it makes people think less of us, which makes us think even less of ourselves than we already do.

So yes, B & HPD both have a lot of similarities; the big trick isn't in what we do, it's why we do it. And even that is a very fine line." - from

I hate that when others get attention it takes away from my limelight because I feel it makes people think less of me.