Poll fun (ha!)

[kellinator]

Why bother getting a serious psychiatric diagnosis, when you can just stick a stupid poll in your LiveJournal?

[Poll #124075]

EDIT: As provided by the lovely and talented cynical7, DSM-IV criteria for diagnosis of borderline personality disorder:

1. frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.
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, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating). Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.
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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Re: Poll fun! (ha)

[polychromatic22.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't know. I'm fairly darn sure that someone I knew at one point is borderline and s/he works in customer service. S/he tends to vacillate heavily between distinct and pure meanness to customers and over the top friendliness. *Generally* s/he treat customers as extensionsial "stand-ins" for the significant others in hir life, treating them as s/he most feels at that moment towards whichever significant other is at the top priority importance right at then.



*I use the unisex "s/he" and "hir" because it's really nobodies business who the hell I'm talking about or their gender. Additionally I am not a psychologist and therefore feel it is outside my reasonable scope to identify in a public forum the pathologies that I think I recognize.