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naruto has untreated borderline personality disorder he is not a possesive daddy dom you freaks
people wit bpd (usually) have childhoods that are unstable and have a pattern of being abandoned by guardian or parental figures. people with bpd feel that love has to be earned and they have to prove their worth and earn attention and affection constantly
naruto is very emotionally volatile and has a problem controlling his emotional responses towards people and situations. he is an agressive crybaby with anger issues and no filter, verbally and emotionally
his childhood is like, classic bpd childhood. loneliness, abandonment, having to earn attention and affection constantly. neglect. Lack of stability. Lack of proper guidance. He has no one/nothing to base off of what healthy emotions and relationships are.
literally naruto
if someone like iruka was there as a parent for naruto's whole childhood, naruto wouldn't have had such trouble regulating his emotions n responses and his relationships wit people. treating children who go thru extreme trauma or who have very visceral emotions wit understanding
and teaching/showing them that it is okay and there are ways to deal wit it can prevent the development of bpd. children who would later on develop bpd usually exhibit behaviors people would describe as making them "bad kids". they can act out, get into trouble,
throw tantrums frequently, have unexplained crying episodes. a chronic feeling of otherness. naruto was the poster child of a bad kid. Rude, loud, trouble making. all of this was a cry for attention and understanding
people wit bpd are impulsive risk takers n often harm themselves n get themselves into dangerous situations. naruto literally stabbed his hand as an emotional response to feeling inferior to sasuke. he risks his life for anything. he would deface the hokage monument for attention
this is just kinda funny cus in part one naruto took a lot of the harmless things sasuke did negatively and most of the time sasuke wasn't even doing anything. He was hyperfocused on sasuke (his special/favorite person) and extremely sensitive
one of the things people who hate naruto say about him is that he's manipulative and guilt trips sasuke into doing what he wants. Textbook borderline stigma/stereotype. Even wit lack of intent or planning you can be manipulative imo.
So naruto could be manipulative i dunno (even if) he doesn't intend to use his emotions n panic attacks n crying tantrums to manipulate people. He doesn't think his emotions through wit logic. He can't distance himself from them enough to see if it would affect people negatively
The biggest thing wit bpd for a lot of people is fear of abandonment (real or perceived). Naruto lets Jiraiya, who is a new guardian figure for a child who had none and is extremely socially isolated, steal his savings
throw him off a cliff (naruto isn't aware of his own healing abilities at this point iirc), sexually abuse him (performing sexy jutsu for jiraiya as a 12 year old just so he would pay attention to him/teach him + creepy comments about his 12yo body) n all these things he forgives
jiraiya did not treat naruto appropriately and was not a good mentor or guardian figure. despite all this (naruto gets mad at him and forgives him, it's a cycle) naruto idealized jiraiya. all this to have jiraiya pay attention to him
naruto's favorite person is sasuke and this is evident in how obsessed he is with sasuke and how he cannot be without him, their emotionally volatile and unhealthy relationship. love is subjective but to a person wit bpd this is love.
sasuke was one of the people who risked his life for naruto despite naruto not making himself useful to him as a hero or savior n naruto being an asshole to him. of course naruto would latch onto him. naruto thinks/feels like sasuke understands his pain and loneliness
from early childhood. this is shown in flashbacks. naruto acknowledges that other people (characters positioned as villains in the story) are just like him but for some reason sasuke is special, his first bond etc. he puts Sasuke on a pedestal
He wants Sasuke's approval/acknowledgement above anything else. this is mentioned by kakashi in the manga. Other than being hokage (representing attention/acceptance) his motivation for most things is sasuke. whether it's for competitive reasons or to get Sasuke back etc.
this is acknowledged by character in the series. The violent fight during valley of the end 1 is literally naruto trying to avoid abandonment. He is crying while fighting sasuke. He would do anything to stop sasuke from leaving him
Despite everyone, all his close friends and loved ones, telling him sasuke is beyond saving, he is not good for him, asking him to stop, begging and crying for Sasuke not to be killed, being beaten half to death over sasuke, turning down his friends (gaara, sakura etc) for sasuke
training for years to save him, forgiving sasuke for all the murder attempts lol, obsessively chasing after him no matter the external circumstances, he chooses Sasuke. Over and over again. It comes to a point where it feels like Sasuke has to die because Naruto doesn't want him
To attack the village, kill the kages etc. But Naruto also can't live without Sasuke, and will never let Sasuke be alone without love again. So his untreated borderline suicidal ass decided the only way they can be together while also "saving" the village is to die together.
there are also other times naruto has been actively suicidal.
dsm-5 criteria paraphrased. You need to experience 5 or more symptoms. Naruto fits most if not all of them.
Someone expressed feeling weird about this thread last night and it's completely understandable. This is just for fun and me projecting/recognizing my own traits and behavior in Naruto and this is in no way educational or even coherent
I don't want to write an essay that's well worded on this cus I dun want people to take it too seriously. Bpd is really serious and these symptoms are extreme. A lot of these symptoms are very relatable to a lot of people at first glance but each symptom has to be experienced at
An extreme intense level. For example, a loved one could tell me "hey im going to get gas" and they come back wit a Valentine's surprise for me to show their affection. Me, being deranged, will instead focus on the fact that they lied to me and didn't get gas, instead doing
Something completely different. To me this is a betrayal of our relationship and something I would never do to them (our relationship) and I will become inconsolably suicidal and depressed and upset.
I'm not a professional
If you have trouble regulating your emotions please reach out to a psychiatrist or therapist or even your primary doctor if possible. This thread isn't a lesson or anything like that
If you have trouble regulating your emotions please reach out to a psychiatrist or therapist or even your primary doctor if possible. This thread isn't a lesson or anything like that
