The question is whether she is BPD or Narcissistic Personality disorder ?
Honestly, I think she is what is known as a Dark Triad:
Dark Traid Wiki
Basically it combines Machiavellianism, Narcissism and Psychopathy.
Not to shit up the thread but if interested look at that Wikipedia article, it describes our "Gorl" to a T.
It's also why she is the way she is and how no psychologist, psychiatrist, therapist, coach, pastor, friend or lover will EVER change Chantal.
She is how she is.
I know you don't actually have to be smart to be Machiavellian, but it cracks me up to see that word used anywhere near Chantal.
She technically meets the requirements-- manipulative, lack of interest in morality, over investment in self interest, and having a lack of empathy.
But "Machavellian" is used colloquially to describe such people who are smart and actually good at being manipulative and have complex schemes. It evokes a Hannibal Lecter level of evil.
Let's just call Chantal what she really is: an insurablely stupid and selfish bitch.
@Clotso Coof
No one who knows anything about Chantal thinks she's bipolar. She has no irrational highs or irrational lows. There's no mood cycling independant from food + drugs + attention.
BPD has a lot of merit, so maybe. But she seems more like one of those Oppositional Defiant Disorder kids who grows into a low-functioning Sociopath (Anti-Social Personality Disorder).
Classic BPD would be more emotionally dependant on Salah. She pretends to care what he thinks and does, but it's obvious she doesn't really give a shit about his affection beyond keeping him as a trophy. She tried desperately to bond to Nader, but doesn't have that same emotional need with Salah. BPD trainwrecks are always attached like that to a mate.
Agreed to all this.
The closest Chantal has been to "manic" was when she was on crack. And her moments of depression seem like everyday depression that lots or even most people experience throughout their life. Hers hits her harder in moments of clarity, is exacerbated by her life being shit, and exagerrated by Chantal herself for sympathy.
Bipolar cycles aren't mood swings within the same day, either. They're much longer, like weeks. Her mood swings are, as clotso coof says, easily explained by other things. She was excited to exercise one day and then down on it the next: she's sore. She was in a good mood one afternoon and then bitchy an hour later: her blood sugar is whacked. That's not bipolar.
If you don't have any loved ones unfortunate enough to have bipolar disorder, you and your loved ones are lucky. It can be downright frightening to see someone ramp into their manic phase. And in my experience, bipolar people can be totally normal, lovely people when their mood is stable. Being manic doesn't make you selfish or manipulative, just... irrational.
BPD otoh seems a lot closer to what Chantal has. But it's almost academic since BPDs are among the people who are least likely to seek help and hardest to treat anyway.
I'm still more comfortable with Stupid Selfish Bitch Disorder.
Thailand really loves horror films and I've heard that their own horror movies are even scarier than the Western counterparts. (Can't confirm this myself because I'm a pussy who will rather read than watch horror.) It's possible that they picked Thailand for this Conjuring tour simply because a lot of Thais are horror fans.
Thailand, Japan and South Korea are all famous for their horror film scenes. Whether they're scarier than Western films is subjective, but they are from different cultures, and sometimes unfamiliarity can be unsettling in itself, which could make it seem scarier to a Westerner.
Tbh this is probably an attraction that's in lots of cities, wherever the Conjuring is opening. Horror is universally appealing. Thailand, S Korea, Japan and idk maybe Germany and Scandinavia, are more "into" horror than other markets, but you'd be hard pressed to find a market that doesn't like dumb horror films. Scary stories are among the first that cavemen told each other around the fire. Chantal and Salah were even going to horror films in Kuwait.
China (PRC) is a restricted market where a movie like the Conjuring wouldn't play, because they only allow a handful of Western movies a year, and they don't like Western movies that touch on spirituality. But there are definitely Chinese-made horror films for their own market, and the same is probably true in other restricted markets.
