Isn't there quite a bit of overlap between BPD and NPD, in terms of thought processes and how they appear externally? I know they're both cluster B, but I've been learning more about how similar to BPD that NPD can look (for example, situational mood swings). So there's a few cows where I'm like, "hmmm, borderline or narcissist? hmmmm..."
I feel like I remember her mentioning DBT but not specifically that it "didn't work" for her, so that's interesting to know. That's just a matter of her not wanting to get better then, at least imo. DBT is like the one thing that results in sustained improvements in borderline patients, and it does a pretty decent job at that. So she's either too far down the BPD hole or is just straight up a narcissist. Neither is surprising.
It really irks me that people like Laura can't seem to tell the difference between cluster A and B disorders.
There's a reason that nobody wants to put up with BPD sufferers and other Cluster B types: they're ASSHOLES. I know a number of people who suffer from it and they've even told me themselves that being diagnosed with BPD is basically "a fancy way of being told you're an asshole". Another scary thing about it, aside from the fact that it's common in legitimate sociopaths, is that so very few people who suffer it are self aware. This is why it really irks me when people lump it in with mood or anxiety disorders. It's nothing like OCD*, bipolar disorder, or clinical depression at all- the key difference is that people who legitimately suffer from those know their actions are irrational. Cluster B types, on the other hand, don't. They see their actions as normal and expect everyone tiptoe around them because they need their personal needs met. This is why Laura wants us all to kiss her ass. If we're not willing to basically kiss the ground she walks on, then we're "ableist" or "endangering her". So it makes sense that she expects us to basically kiss her ass.
Lmfaooo. Somebody called her on her bluff, and instead of learning from it, she gets pissy and blames the entire fucking world. What a dumb cunt.
Yeah, living in the boonies largely sucks because there ain't shit to do and there's usually rampant poverty and an almost complete lack of resources (which rarely gets addressed due to urban liberal elitism and the virtue-signalling motivations of these types that make it easy for them to ignore rural poor and write them off as white morons). But the thing about their "bigotry" is that they're just more upfront about their thoughts and questions, and it mostly comes from legitimate ignorance. They aren't highly educated in the traditional academic sense so they don't know all of the polite lingo, and they don't have nearly the amount of interaction and experience with different types of people so they literally don't know.
Yeah, Colt constantly demands that everything be done to his liking, on his terms. He demands respect and perfect understanding, yet refuses to even consider the need to reciprocate. Everyone else exists to serve him. Therapists and providers of social services are his subordinates.
Given how difficult it is to function without a smartphone of some sort anymore, I honestly can't fault him for having one. And for all I know, his mom's paying for it, or he relies on free wifi and pays to load phone minutes as he can afford it. Buying the device can be really expensive, but maybe he's got a gifted/donated one.
Yeah--we know he's a chronic suicide-baiter for money and sympathy, and any mental health worker who gets to know him probably knows this, but they can't simply brush it off as, "Oh, look--Colt's threatening suicide again." If he's claiming to be suicidal, then yes, they are professionally obligated to treat him as such. So if he doesn't want to end up on a psych ward not to his liking, he needs to rethink suicide baiting as a manipulation tactic. Or just fucking neck himself already, because his life is never going to get any better than it is right now.
