Fine, as you say. However, let me remind some, and inform those who don't know, of the essential features of Borderline Personality Disorder, the tentative diagnosis suggested for this person. 1. Frantic efforts to avoid abandonment This is, I think, important information when it comes to making up one's mind.
"A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self image and affects, and a marked impulsivity beginning in early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five or more of: (paraphrased)
2. Patter no unstable and intense interpersonal relationships alternating between extremes of idealisation and devaluation
3. Identity disturbance
4. impulsivity in at least two potentially self-damaging areas (such as spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving)
5. Recurrent suicidal behaviour....
6. Affective instability
7. chronic feelings of emptiness
8. inappropriate intense anger or difficulty controlling anger
9. transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociation symptoms.
Nice having this brief discussion with you
best wishes
Paul
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