Feel pity for this lady. She is definitely suffering from a mental illness which should be treated with proper medications and counseling rather than public shame and humiliation.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a long-term pattern of abnormal behavior characterized by unstable
relationships with other people, unstable
sense of self, and unstable
emotions.
[4][5] There is frequent dangerous behavior and
self-harm.
[4] People may also struggle with a feeling of emptiness and a fear of
abandonment.
[4] Symptoms may be brought on by seemingly normal events.
[4] The behavior typically begins by early adulthood, and occurs across a variety of situations.
[5] Substance abuse,
depression, and
eating disorders are commonly associated with BPD.
[4] Approximately 10% of people affected die by
suicide.
Females are diagnosed about three times as often as males. People with BPD may feel emotions with greater ease, depth and for a longer time than others do.
[11][12] A core characteristic of BPD is affective instability, which generally manifests as unusually intense emotional responses to environmental triggers, with a slower return to a baseline emotional state.
[13][14] People with BPD often engage in
idealization and devaluation of others, alternating between high positive regard for people and great disappointment in them.
[15] In
Marsha Linehan's view, the sensitivity, intensity, and duration with which people with BPD feel emotions have both positive and negative effects.
[14] People with BPD are often exceptionally enthusiastic, idealistic, joyful, and loving.
[16] However, they may feel overwhelmed by negative emotions ("anxiety, depression, guilt/shame, worry, anger, etc."), experiencing intense
grief instead of sadness, shame and humiliation instead of mild embarrassment, rage instead of annoyance, and panic instead of nervousness.
[16]
People with BPD can be very sensitive to the way others treat them, by feeling intense joy and gratitude at perceived expressions of kindness, and intense sadness or anger at perceived criticism or hurtfulness.
[30] Their feelings about others often shift from admiration or love to anger or dislike after a disappointment, a threat of losing someone, or a perceived loss of esteem in the eyes of someone they value. This phenomenon, sometimes called
splitting, includes a shift from idealizing others to devaluing them.
[31] Combined with mood disturbances, idealization and devaluation can undermine relationships with family, friends, and co-workers.
[32] Self-image can also change rapidly from healthy to unhealthy.
