Could you have this

Without any environmental factors? Like could it just be a brain imbalance? (Sorry to say imbalance but I can't think of the correct word) Just wondering because I can't put my finger on any type of abuse or trauma that I went through that would cause this?

The genesis could be one of several things, not everyone with psychiatric disorders will have a history of abuse/trauma, this alone hinders many people and prevents them from acting on finding support and reaching out to professionals. If you follow something in a similar nature to that of Psychotherapy, you'll come to find that the prospects are legion, and although some may prohibit abusive/traumatic experiences, they're all the same; valid, feasible, and logical.

Well in my opinion (which, remember, is not a professional statement) people with BPD share both genetic/brain and environmental factors. It's like when people with some brain/neurological system dysfunction (I would call it extreme sensitivity) are born - they have a potential to develop BPD. And with appropriate environment, they may end up with such a disorder.

However - I'd say that the bigger the trauma or mistakes done by parents are, the less genetic potential you need to develop BPD. However, with hyper-sensitive child even a "normal" childhood can evolve into BPD. Why? Because firstly - parents are not aware of the infant sensitivity. And to cope with such a child, you'd need therapeutic experience. With majority of parents not having such. Additionally - every parent makes mistakes. Bigger or smaller. The smaller ones might not end with trauma, but when they unfortunately meet very sensitive kid - well it might happen that some personality disorder emerge. Even too much praising can have negative consequences - but I wouldn't say it'd left a trauma feeling.

I'd also like to add that what you consider traumatic and what is generally considered traumatic by most people and child psychologists might differ. Children are known for splitting and cognitive dissonance, and viewing unfit caregivers as loving, caring, perfectly capable caregivers.

Some people have dissociative amnesia and have simply forgotten or repressed trauma. I had some childhood traumas that I'd suppressed so deeply I can't consciously recall anything more than vague details.

And, as somebody already mentioned, individual temperament comes into play. One person's trauma is another's "no big deal".

Jasmer wrote:I'd also like to add that what you consider traumatic and what is generally considered traumatic by most people and child psychologists might differ. Children are known for splitting and cognitive dissonance, and viewing unfit caregivers as loving, caring, perfectly capable caregivers.

Some people have dissociative amnesia and have simply forgotten or repressed trauma. I had some childhood traumas that I'd suppressed so deeply I can't consciously recall anything more than vague details.

And, as somebody already mentioned, individual temperament comes into play. One person's trauma is another's "no big deal".

Our first listed symptom--the fear of abandonment thing--reads "real or perceived." What we think is real is real even when it is not real. What we feel is real even when it is not real. The same applies in general to what people believe.