I wonder how emotional memory (recall of emotionally arousing experiences and their effects on self and others) play out in BPD? The reason I’m asking this is because I have noticed how individuals diagnosed with BPD have a difficulty regulating their emotions and how emotional dysregulation may be linked with increase in memory recall as well as lack in memory recall. Emotional dysregulation appears to happen briefly and very intensely and/or intensely and over a long period of time. After these episodes, patients tend to react in two ways: Either feeling overly guilty about what happened (excessive ruminating, feeling guilty, and remembering the experiences to the finest detail) or not being able to fully recall what happened or how they felt (lack of memory and/or skewed perception). Why does these reactions occur in some and not in others?
Curr Psychiatry Rep. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 Apr 2.:Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2013 Jan; 15(1): 335. doi: 10.1007/s11920-012-0335-2
Components of Emotion Dysregulation in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Review
Ryan W. Carpenter and Timothy J. Trull📷
The researchers conclude that emotion dysregulation "is also a process that develops over the lifetime, likely beginning in infancy. We have proposed an organizational structure of the components of emotion dysregulation, derived from Linehan’s biosocial theory : Emotion sensitivity, heightened negative affect, a deficit of appropriate regulation strategies, and a surplus of maladaptive regulation strategies"
Based on this you can draw the conclusion that because people differ in sensitivity and vulnerability as well in trauma history, surroundings and genetics they also react differently not seldom with maladaptive regulation strategies.
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