Do people with Borderline PD get mad at small things?

I have a question but I don't want people to somehow take it the wrong way.
I know people with Borderline can get upset by something big, but are people with Borderline Personality Disorder also known for getting very very mad at the most littlest and "irrational" and "illogical" things?
I'm just wondering because that would be me, I get mad at a picture for example that's not even suppose to be offensive yet I got super mad.
Or someone says something positive but I pick it up as a threat.
I do not have Borderline PD officially and not claiming I do but I'm just wondering if that is a thing or it's just me being ummm, ridiculous or whatever you wanna call me.

Delusional and psychotic thinking, and anger issues are common with us, so yeah to the onlooker, when we rage, we are getting mad at something "small" when actually it's a trigger from something traumatizing that happened to us.. in those cases when it LOOKS like we're getting mad at something small, it's this whole mess but deep down it triggers something that came from something very serious.

Sometimes I get furious about something minor like not being able to close a cupboard properly and end up slamming it and not caring if it breaks because I'm so suddenly furious about the fact that it won't close properly.

i wonder that when i try to figure out if i have borderline traits and i can not understand.i have no answer.i notice people around me getting angry same as me people at work for example.
and i feel i get angry like them but at irrelevant things.or different than them.
like they get angry with things i do not care and i get angry with things they do not care.and the comparison doesn’t help me .
sometimes i have no reaction whatsoever or i am more calm than normal and other times i overreact with irrelevant things that other would wonder why on that she has that reaction.not when you would expect.
the experience i have with diagnosed bpd person was very small but it was obvious to me that he reacted when others didn’t but i could see the trigger (i do not know if others could see the trigger)and his reaction didn’t seem weird to me.like he just cared more than others but he was different in terms of others didn’t react so he was the exception.
sometimes i feel i react at irrelevant things. and do not care about other at all.but i see other people getting angry like me

I don't know if it's generally common with people with BPD, but I sure do. I won't get mad at big issues, but sometimes it feels like the smaller the issue the more likely I am to blow up at it.

Usually I think it's because I've let a lot of other issues build up over time, and that small thing is sort of like the straw that breaks the camel's back, so to speak. But sometimes, like oceane said, I get angry because it reminds me of something that's already happened, or of another point in time I had to deal with something similar.

I think people with borderline are more likely to get mad at "little" things because we have so much tension going on underneath that it takes something TINY to push us over the edge, and we're afraid of looking crazy so we keep a mountain of tension buried.

I have become totally enraged at inanimate objects if they don't work the way they should to the point of either throwing them out, or destroying them. It just sets me off and I've learned to walk away from it. I take it personally, somehow, like the object is trying to spite me.

I FREQUENTLY get mad at things people say to me that are supposed to be compliments, but I take them as insults, or like they are making fun of me. Like Oceane said, a lot of this can be traced back to traumatic events, I think.

I can tell you that yes, a word, a picture, a piece of memory can trigger a storm for a BPD, especially when it's connected with previous stuff. from rather calm or even happy to bursting with rage. it's as if one minor thing 'contaminates' everything and turns it into something awful.

There were some interesting words which i've found once:
'Mix a tablespoon of wine with a barrel of dirty water. You'll get dirty water.
Mix a barrel of wine with a tablespoon of dirty water. You'll get dirty water.'

(The opposite might happen, too. I get overjoyed by small things. For example, I managed to tie my laces correctly for the first time a few days ago. It felt incredible. And I wanted to celebrate that moment by doing something special. Yeah.. But my happiness all disappeared after half an hour, because I dropped a piece of chocolate on the floor. And I ended up drinking alone that evening, because I'm an idiot.

Ugh, only now do I realize how dumb this sounds. well..)

off-topic: like the Joy Division profile picture a lot. I listen to 'She's lost control' so often. And 'Love will tear us apart'.

i get mad at small issues. like enraged. which is why i restrict my conversation to few people n think a lot before saying anything. mostly i avoid people who trigger me or can trigger me.

Nightfure wrote:I don't know if it's generally common with people with BPD, but I sure do. I won't get mad at big issues, but sometimes it feels like the smaller the issue the more likely I am to blow up at it.

Usually I think it's because I've let a lot of other issues build up over time, and that small thing is sort of like the straw that breaks the camel's back, so to speak. But sometimes, like oceane said, I get angry because it reminds me of something that's already happened, or of another point in time I had to deal with something similar.

I understand completely, especially the straw metaphor, sometimes I feel like the straw metaphor will come into my life with something in medium to extreme level.

-- Sat Jan 07, 2017 6:02 pm --

LemonCake wrote:I can tell you that yes, a word, a picture, a piece of memory can trigger a storm for a BPD, especially when it's connected with previous stuff. from rather calm or even happy to bursting with rage. it's as if one minor thing 'contaminates' everything and turns it into something awful.

There were some interesting words which i've found once:
'Mix a tablespoon of wine with a barrel of dirty water. You'll get dirty water.
Mix a barrel of wine with a tablespoon of dirty water. You'll get dirty water.'

(The opposite might happen, too. I get overjoyed by small things. For example, I managed to tie my laces correctly for the first time a few days ago. It felt incredible. And I wanted to celebrate that moment by doing something special. Yeah.. But my happiness all disappeared after half an hour, because I dropped a piece of chocolate on the floor. And I ended up drinking alone that evening, because I'm an idiot.

Ugh, only now do I realize how dumb this sounds. well..)

off-topic: like the Joy Division profile picture a lot. I listen to 'She's lost control' so often. And 'Love will tear us apart'.

Thanks for the reply, I listen to dark music for the most part, like anything goth or just dark, not necessarily heavy, but I do like heavy.
I just thought it was me who was the ridiculous one, I picked Borderline PD to post this because I have a somewhat understanding about it, no doctor has confirmed it, but it's pretty obvious I have an unstable personality. (That's how I would describe myself, not saying all people that have it are whatever you wanna call it but ya.)

-- Sat Jan 07, 2017 6:03 pm --

Thanks to all who replied!

The lat straw thing is true. It's best to practice mindfulness and evaluate your emotions regularly. That way you will know if you are mad because your friend looked at you funny, or because you're tired, hungry, overwhelmed by too many people around etc. Once you know why you are feeling this way atm, you will be able to take the right steps.

In a word, yes.