🔑 Key Definitions
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) 😢: Emotionally Unstable PD - characterized by emotional dysregulation, black-and-white thinking, dissociation. VICTIMS of their own thoughts, not aggressive toward others.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder 👑: Pervasive grandiosity, need for admiration, lack of empathy. Named after Greek myth of Narcissus who fell in love with his own reflection.
Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD) 🔍: Pervasive suspiciousness and mistrust. Higher risk for depression and social isolation.
😢 BPD - 9 Key Characteristics
- Intense fear of abandonment
- Impulsive & self-destructive (towards SELF, not others)
- Quickly shifting moods
- Chronic emptiness
- Explosive anger
- Dissociative feelings
- Self-mutilation (cutting, biting, burning)
- Chronic suicidal ideation
- Unstable relationships
👑 Narcissistic PD - 9 Key Characteristics
- Grandiose self-importance
- Fantasies of success/power
- Believes being special
- Requires excessive admiration
- Sense of entitlement
- Manipulative & exploitative
- Lacks empathy
- Envious of others
- Arrogant behaviors
🔍 PPD - Key Characteristics
- Questions hidden motives
- Argumentative, Scheming, Unfriendly
- Unforgiving, Hostile
- Perceives attacks not apparent to others
- Suspicious of spouse's loyalty without reason
💡 Exam Tips
- BPD patients are VICTIMS - mostly self-destructive, not aggressive to others
- Narcissistic: Will go to EXTREME levels when rejected (acid throwing, threats)
- PPD: Violence based on FALSE beliefs/allegations
- Changeability debate: Neuroplasticity, treatment effects, age-related changes support change
- BPD crimes = self-related; Narcissistic = when enraged; PPD = from false suspicions