PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Bipolar Disorder, Etiology, Personality Disorder
3 Jan 2019
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Can be viewed as someone rejecting and threatening. Impulsivity, fear of abandonment, coupled with poor/vague self image. They recreate themselves every year or two they might be working in one particular area, and then the next year they would flip and do something completely different. Self mutilations and suicidal gestures are not uncommon. Because of the very strong emotional reactions - used to deal with or a strategy to deal with the overwhelming emotional states that a person is experiencing. Borderline between neuroses and psychosis - originally. Extremely emotionally sensitive and it can dip into psychosis in terms of not being in touch of reality. Engage in splitting : dichotomizing individuals all good or all bad . Tend to look at people"s all good or all bad. Initially they may idealize the person, that they are perfect and they can flip and say i hate you, i can"t stand you.
