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Borderline Personality Disorder, Non-qualifications for BPD, Historian -…
Borderline Personality Disorder
Suicide
Parasuicidality (NSSI) ex. wrist banging)
50 asprins (headache)
Interpersonal dysfunction
Relationship instability
Relationships with her parents and boyfriend
intensity of relations with Lisa (builds this obssession with her)
Impulsivity
Suicide attempt but went to buy milk
chronic emptiness
Non-qualifications for BPD
No splitting
No strong attachment
No fear of abandonment
Positive recovery
Other qualifying diagnosis
Dissociative disorder
Depersonalization
Derealization
noted that mental illness feels like a "parallel universe" (out of body experience/ dream like state)
Wants to kill the suicidal part of herself
Unreliable historian
no intrapersonal symptoms
No severity in her sysmptoms compared to other patients
Just turn 18
not appropriate time for diagnosis
unconventional young adult
Identity formation not complete
Historian
McLean Hospital
Must be hospitalized for months on end (over a year)
Notes that BPD is a serioud disorder and often writes about it in an extreme manner
The typical time for asylum stays is a week?! It was very unreasonable for her to have stayed this long.
In an assylum with other mentally insane women
Admission papers and psychiatrist notes don't match some of the things stated by her in the memoir