Is our upcoming generation becoming more and more borderline?

The Freudian Anal stage is the stage when toilet training is initiated. Usually during the second year of life, a child has its first decisive experience with the external regulation of instinctual impulses. Developing this control leads to a sense of accomplishment and independence.

According to Freud, success at this stage is dependent upon the way in which parents approach toilet training. In the upcoming generations parents’ approach is becoming more and more erratic. Both the parents are working, hence the child has to be left with maids or put in a crèche. In both the cases, the toilet training is avoided during the morning hours and the child is made to wear disposable diapers. During evenings, the mother would try to train the child but that training is inconsistent. Then again at night, because the mother has to go to work the next morning and thus would need to sleep, she again puts the child back in diapers for the night.

Borderline Personality disorder is basically an impulse control disorder. These erratic behaviour of the parents fixates the child to the anal stage with erratic expression of emotions.