Anyone with borderline personality disorder?
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I'm a psychologist, and I have experienced BPD with my patients. Some of them are manipulative, yet others are not. It's a case by case basis. What I do notice, however, with several of my patients, though, is not that they are manipulative with others, but, rather, they tend to be manipulative with themselves. They use themselves as a form of manipulative. They threaten suicide or bodily mutilation as a form of manipulation of others. They often find that they, themselves, are the only thing they control. They also use sex as a form of manipulation in this manner. Its a very common element of BPD, however it is not a DSM-IV designated criteria. These are (at least five of the following):
1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.
3. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.
4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, promiscuous sex, eating disorders, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating).
5. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior.
6. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
7. Chronic feelings of emptiness.
8. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).
9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms.
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Borderline personality rears its ugly head in many ways. I am not sure what you mean by manipulative. Sometimes it can be. You kind of have other people make choices for you. Sometimes you feel anxious. You may believe what anyone says about you. I really believe it depends on whether or not you have been diagnosed by a professional. Donot believe everything you hear.
Being manipulative and provocative are two signs of the disorder, but that doesn't seal the deal on the diagnosis.
Borderlines are by far the biggest pains in the *** of all mental health patients.
Hello...and welcome to hell...just kidding. I am a borderline...typical textbook borderline. I feel that yes as a borderline we can manipulative but most of the time it isn't intentional. Also we are not always aware of doing it. It's more of a coping skill we learned as a young kid, a skill that worked then but serves no purpose now. I don't know how long you have been diagnosed, but I have been for about 7 yrs...and it is one of the hardest illnesses to treat because alot of therapist don't want to work with us cause we are very impulsive and alot of times we don't stick with therapy, and the big one being.we'll be doing great, taking baby steps forward then we freak and we have to go back to "go" and not collect our $200.!
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