In Boxing Day, a family struggles with a man who is a father, and husband that exhibits strange behavior towards them. He is very standoffish despite the fact that he has a family. We could possibly assume that borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental disorder marked by a pattern of ongoing instability in moods, behavior, self-image, and functioning. What are some behavioral activities the father does which to have one believe he has emotional instability? On Boxing Day the father has an unstable relationship, extreme emotional swings, and an unstable self-image this may show how is suffering from borderline personality disorder.
First, the father in the story boxing day, can tell something about him is very off because he is always to himself in the basement and never wants to be bothered. The father has no real bond with his family. He has a son, but their relationship is very poor due to the fact he rather sits downstairs in the basement and punches his punching bag all day. The father said this to his son " Stay up here, kid he said. I'm about to beat this thing till it cries. Yep, gonna be down there for a while. The son feels abandoned by his father so his response is, "He doesn't need to say, I Don't want you around. His shrug, the court dance in his eyes, they speak for him." . He also pushes his wife away being that he is always in the basement. His son watches him in the basement with the punching bag and sees him hug it. The son's reaction was, "I rarely saw my father embrace my mother the way he's hugging that bag. The father having this unstable relationship is one symptom of borderline personality disorder. People with BPD tend to have relationships that are short-lived. "You may fall in love quickly, believing each new person is the one who will make you feel whole, only to be quickly disappointed. Your relationships either seem perfect or horrible, with nothing in between. Your lovers, friends, or family members may feel like they have emotional whiplash from your rapid swings between idealization and devaluation, anger, and hate." Second, the father has extreme emotional swings, which is another symptom of BPD. He becomes very angry over little things and very sad over them too. In the story, the son is asked by his mother to go get his father because it's time for dinner. The is become easily upset over dinner he asked to his son " Boxer...
