04-22-2013, 12:32 PM
From what I've read, people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) are often misdiagnosed as bi-polar.
Here are the 3 main differences between the disorders, from Psychology Today.
1. People with BPD cycle much more quickly, often several times a day.
2. The moods in people with BPD are more dependent, either positively or negatively, on what's going on in their life at the moment. Anything that might smack of abandonment (however far fetched) is a major trigger.
3. In people with BPD, the mood swings are more distinct. Marsha M. Linehan, professor of psychology at the University of Washington, says that while people with bipolar disorder swing between all-¬encompassing periods of mania and major depression, the mood swings typical in BPD are more specific. She says, "You have fear going up and down, sadness going up and down, anger up and down, disgust up and down, and love up and down."
Ref:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/stop...-disorders
"Fear of abandonment" connects to Martinez's motive theory. In his opening, he made the case that Arias planned and executed Travis's murder because he was shutting her out of his life more and moving on with other women.
He was taking another woman to the PPL event in Cancun and had posted in his blog about giving up casual dating and focusing on finding a wife.
Here are the 3 main differences between the disorders, from Psychology Today.
1. People with BPD cycle much more quickly, often several times a day.
2. The moods in people with BPD are more dependent, either positively or negatively, on what's going on in their life at the moment. Anything that might smack of abandonment (however far fetched) is a major trigger.
3. In people with BPD, the mood swings are more distinct. Marsha M. Linehan, professor of psychology at the University of Washington, says that while people with bipolar disorder swing between all-¬encompassing periods of mania and major depression, the mood swings typical in BPD are more specific. She says, "You have fear going up and down, sadness going up and down, anger up and down, disgust up and down, and love up and down."
Ref:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/stop...-disorders
"Fear of abandonment" connects to Martinez's motive theory. In his opening, he made the case that Arias planned and executed Travis's murder because he was shutting her out of his life more and moving on with other women.
He was taking another woman to the PPL event in Cancun and had posted in his blog about giving up casual dating and focusing on finding a wife.