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To whom are you speaking? the OP was talking about a friend--well, a former friend--not himself.
None of us here have spoken of our own personalities or behaviors. Rather, this thread has been one of diagnostics. You are off-topic and basically trolling. Reported.
This sounds like either Borderline Personality Disorder or Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Those are the main ones that flip from admiration to devaluation of the other person.
wouldn't one of the hallmarks of BPD be that this person does it over and over again with new people?
I wasn't clear if the OP saw a one time event or a recurring event.
I'm thinking one time didn't mean a pattern necessarily.
Jodi Arias was often called a person with BPD, but read she showed no signs of it until she got involved with Travis Alexander.
The distinction is important IMO (pattern or not).
Regardless, this sort of stuff is intriguing. I had a BPD roommate and it was a three month cycle over and over again. Those first three months were great! Not gonna lie!
It sounds like there may be some bipolarism in there too, as OP referred to highs and lows, although in the context hard to tell if that's what was meant. Mood swings are a hallmark of bipolarism. A confirming symptom would be if subject also experiences periods of high energy and low energy, and is definitely confirmed if subject sometimes has high enough energy to not sleep for a few days and/or sleeps excessively for more than usual periods -- disturbed diurnal periods coupled with similar energy swings.
Sad to say you can have multiple mental problems.
But perhaps BPD fully describes it.
Bipolar doesn't have the same speed of cycling. BPD people will literally create a tornado and 1 hour later be "ok" and don't understand why you're still upset. A lot of the stuff comes from perceived or real rejection. You have to set clear boundaries bc saying we'll see is interpreted as yes and watch out when it doesn't go their way.
To whom are you speaking? the OP was talking about a friend--well, a former friend--not himself.
None of us here have spoken of our own personalities or behaviors. Rather, this thread has been one of diagnostics. You are off-topic and basically trolling. Reported.
You've been here one month and have already been caught plagiarizing. You should slow your roll.
To whom are you speaking? the OP was talking about a friend--well, a former friend--not himself.
None of us here have spoken of our own personalities or behaviors. Rather, this thread has been one of diagnostics. You are off-topic and basically trolling. Reported.
Apparantly you missed the part of TOS stating that no *diagnosis* of any type is allowed on this forum.
No one can diagnose anything from descriptions and the only legal diasnosis has to come from a trained,
licensed Physician, Dentist, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, etc.
Perhaps you should be reported for impersonating a Psychiatrist on the internet.......
Bipolar doesn't have the same speed of cycling. BPD people will literally create a tornado and 1 hour later be "ok" and don't understand why you're still upset. A lot of the stuff comes from perceived or real rejection. You have to set clear boundaries bc saying we'll see is interpreted as yes and watch out when it doesn't go their way.
That's not true. Bipolarism has cycles of any length, may be primarily one direction and only rarely the other, and cycles are often quite irregular. It can even abate for a while only to return later.
Fortunately there are good drug treatments that help some bipolars.
But I've made myself clear that this topic does not seem to describe a person with bipolarism. Not to me.
Narcissists seem to love putting people on pedestals, in order that they might knock those same people OFF those pedestals, later.
But really, that doesn't explain the EXTREMES we see, and the level of DESTRUCTIVENESS we see, among certain narcies. You can be Narcissistic AND 'Borderline', of course. Thanks for the insight into Borderline Personality Disorder. NOW, I have a window into certain people I've known.
Narcissists seem to love putting people on pedestals, in order that they might knock those same people OFF those pedestals, later.
No, that isn't it at all. I suggest you read the Wikipedia article on narcissism.
I like to put it this way: Narcissism is all about the narcissist who is starring in the movie of his life. He is the lead character, and everybody else is merely supporting cast.
I haven't looked into this thread in a good week, with the assumption that it had died down (only to see the wealth of new information, which I look forward to reviewing)
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