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- Jul 19, 2019
Let's walk through BPD and JY:
1. I don't have enough information to say whether he feels empty or not, but it wouldn't surprise me.
2. He's obviously emotionally unstable, enough so that manic depression has been considered as a diagnosis. So many of his videos are giddy, angry, tearful...
3. Frantic efforts to avoid abandonment? In spades.
4. I don't know if I can say that his sense of self is unstable, but there's a chasm between what he says about himself and how other people react to him, and I think it's fair to say that his self-image is unstable. I mean, it's got to be.
5. He's certainly impulsive about sexuality, and probably food and booze, too. No self-limits, no ability to recognize what is or isn't appropriate. He retcons this into him being an "activist" and a "proud lesbian," and maybe the doubling down is counter to impulsive, more compulsive, but it's certainly self-destructive.
6. Inappropriate outbursts of anger? In spades.
7. Total craziness in all of his relationships? In spades.
8. He hasn't made any suicide threats in a while, but I'd put this as a yes.
9. There's a backpack under his balcony and it's got metal in it and it's TOTALLY A BOMB, YOU GUYS. If he literally believes that someone tried to bomb him, then this is a yes; if he's just being hysterical and lying about it, then that also seems to fit the general craziness.
So he's emotionally unstable, avoids abandonment, impulsive, angry, unstable in relationships, and suicidal for sure, so that's six right there that check the box (and we only need five). Emptiness, unstable self-image, and paranoia are the three that I'm a little uncertain about, but signs on all three of these do point to a yes.
If someone else wants to walk through the criteria for an alternative diagnosis, I am there for it.
BPD is a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotion, as well as marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
1 Chronic feelings of emptiness
2 Emotional instability in reaction to day-to-day events (e.g., intense episodic sadness, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
3 Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
4 Identity disturbance with markedly or persistently unstable self-image or sense of self
5 Impulsive behavior in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)
6 Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)
7 Pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by extremes between idealization and devaluation (also known as "splitting")
8 Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-harming behavior
9 Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms.
1. I don't have enough information to say whether he feels empty or not, but it wouldn't surprise me.
2. He's obviously emotionally unstable, enough so that manic depression has been considered as a diagnosis. So many of his videos are giddy, angry, tearful...
3. Frantic efforts to avoid abandonment? In spades.
4. I don't know if I can say that his sense of self is unstable, but there's a chasm between what he says about himself and how other people react to him, and I think it's fair to say that his self-image is unstable. I mean, it's got to be.
5. He's certainly impulsive about sexuality, and probably food and booze, too. No self-limits, no ability to recognize what is or isn't appropriate. He retcons this into him being an "activist" and a "proud lesbian," and maybe the doubling down is counter to impulsive, more compulsive, but it's certainly self-destructive.
6. Inappropriate outbursts of anger? In spades.
7. Total craziness in all of his relationships? In spades.
8. He hasn't made any suicide threats in a while, but I'd put this as a yes.
9. There's a backpack under his balcony and it's got metal in it and it's TOTALLY A BOMB, YOU GUYS. If he literally believes that someone tried to bomb him, then this is a yes; if he's just being hysterical and lying about it, then that also seems to fit the general craziness.
So he's emotionally unstable, avoids abandonment, impulsive, angry, unstable in relationships, and suicidal for sure, so that's six right there that check the box (and we only need five). Emptiness, unstable self-image, and paranoia are the three that I'm a little uncertain about, but signs on all three of these do point to a yes.
If someone else wants to walk through the criteria for an alternative diagnosis, I am there for it.