Many folks are asking for examples of a person with borderline personality disorder. The following is the best example I can find.
Aileen Wuornos, in a fit of rage - one of the traits for borderline.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFBcjII3QAE
Aileen wasn't really a serial killer. She was a borderline. A frustrated, un-helped, acting out borderline. She was fed up with prostituting and started robbing men of their money and cars, instead - Killing them to eliminate witnesses. Being borderline is not the reason she killed - the reasons for her going that far are in depth and many - told in her story. But, she happens to be a borderline who resorted to killing - unusual it would seem.
Here you see her start out quasi normal in conversation with documentary producer, Nick Broomfield from England. As he begins pressuring her to admit to something she doesn't want to say, she starts showing the BPD traits and behaviors.
She becomes obstinate, and threatening. When threat doesn't work, she becomes verbally abusive, and her face changes. She goes off on a rant with full-on beady-eyes, raging.
The sad thing is, she is correct in much of what she is incapable of communicating properly. The borderline's message rarely gets heard over their irrational actions. It's a dichotomy.
Borderlines are straight shooters, not real good at playing games, unlike narcissists. Having no finesse, they are not prolific liars. Almost everything about the borderline is unattractive and off putting, and in full-on rage mode - they seem psychotic.
In this rage is a short spurt kind of psychotic split, where they dive totally into a negative stance... deeper and deeper into the black abyss. There is no reaching them at this point.
The borderline never feels heard, and rarely is, considering the delivery. Frustration is what the borderline comes away with on most interactions at best - at worst, it is anger.
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