i would argue emotional intelligence is very low in bpd. if you have bpd, your brain is stunted because you have a primitive separation-distress response in the amygdala that most baby mammals grow out of. the separation-distress response creates a state of hypervigilance, paranoia, and anxiety. bpdemons have defects in their kappa-opioid receptors that prevent them from turning off this response. this generally cascades into an atrophy of the networks of the brain that deal with adaptive processing of emotions. parts of the cingulate gyrus and prefrontal cortex are less active so emotions fail to be encoded and identified, which causes even more hyperarousal in the amygdala because it just defaults into that separation-distress response, as the bpd brain lacks the capacity to label and encode the correct emotions to respond with. in the future we should just remove the amygdalas of people with bpd. amygdalectomies aren't as bad as they sound.
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