The New Predator Part 2: Borderline Personality DIsorder-S05E20

Recorded: January 7, 2024 / Published:February 25, 2024

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1. Safe, sane, consensual, and informed
2. KNKI: Knowledge, No Intolerance, Kindness, Integrity
3. “Submission is not about authority and it’s not about obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.” -Wm. Paul Young

1. Disclaimer: Mayfair and I are not medical professionals and we are only giving our interpretation of the information. Because our advice is to talk to a professional, if you choose to make any decisions because of something we say, you are making those decisions against our advised and are solely responsible for all outcomes of your decisions.
2. “From a message: How can you call someone with a mental illness a predator?”
   1. Answer: Thank you for the question, especially an easy one when someone isn’t emotionally attached to the topic. First, because all predators have some degree of mental illness or they wouldn’t prey on people. Second, People with BPD tend to use the diagnosis as an excuse for their behavior. It is an explanation NOT an excuse.
3. - “Drama Queens: The New Predator Part 2: Borderline Personality DIsorder-S05E20”
   1. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-autism-spectrum-disorder/202009/5-signs-you-might-be-drama-queen#:~:text=Creating%20drama%20was%20one%20way,%2C%20psychopathic%2C%20and%20narcissistic%20disorders.
   1. https://neurodivergentinsights.com/blog/dsm-5-criteria-for-borderline-personality-disorder
   2. PBD is a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of instability. More specifically, Borderline Personality Disorder is characterized by instability in relationships, self-image, emotions, and behavior (impulsivity).
   3. Criteria for diagnosis:
      1. 1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
      2. 2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.
      3. 3. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.
      4. 4. Impulsivity in at least two potentially self-damaging areas (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating).
      5. 5. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures or threats, or self-mutilating behavior.
      6. 6. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and rarely more than a few days).
      7. 7. Chronic feelings of emptiness.
      8. 8. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).
      9. 9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms.
   1. PBD is a most commonly a trauma/PTSD based disorder.
   2. Another cause of BPD is learned behavior from having a parent with BPD or other serious mental health disorder such as bipolar disorder or substance abuse.
   3. About 70% of diagnosed patients are female. 6.2% female and 5.6%...