This is an extreme example of BPD.
My mother was a psychiatrist, 1960s/1970s/1980s.
She had a patient, "C" -- a woman who came to her for "mood problems"
My mother saw her for several months when she found out that C was seeing two other psychiatrists in the area. My mother told her she could not see her. The other two doctors also told her this was unethical and dangerous, especially if any medications were being prescribed.
The other two psychiatrists were men (not a lot of women doctors in those days). Well, C became fixated on my mother. She "fell in love with her" but also hated her for not seeing her.
Her reaction to this was:
1. Send love letters to my mother almost every day
2. Send NAKED PHOTOS of herself to my mother in many of these letters
3. Sent a singing Valentine to my mother's office, LOL (I thought that was rather amusing)
4. Because in the old days, we used an answering service that picked up the home phone, C would call multiple times a day driving the answering service crazy. Also, you never knew if YOU might pick up the phone first, and she would be there at the other end of the line.
5. One day C tried to force her way into my mother's office to hug her. My mother had to get a restraining order against her. She could not come within 500 feet of my mother, or she would be arrested. She could not call. She could not come by the house.
Well, that really didn't work as the police would get fed up with that. She parked outside our house. She kept calling. She sent letters/cards/valentines/gifts. She would phone and hang up.
THEN, she went to the hospital where my mother was on staff. She made flyers that stated my mother was an awful doctor and should be fired. As soon as these were taken down, she would put them back up. The hospital had to file some legal action. Fortunately there were security guards at the hospital.
Extreme LOVE, Extreme HATRED and rage.
This behavior began when I was a teenager. It ended when my mother went into a Nursing Home with dementia some 20 years later. She followed me in my car to see what had happened to my mother. I nearly had a stroke I was so terrified.
She also BROKE INTO MY MOTHER'S HOUSE when my mother and I were home. At night around 11pm. What she planned to do we don't know. Police came, tried to chase her down and lost her. We aren't even sure how she got into the house. Changed all the locks, etc.
She also would call and taunt our housekeeper (my nanny really), and follow HER when she would go to the bus stop, or get a ride.
Oddly enough, this woman has a twin sister who does not have BPD. I also keep tabs on where she is as I fear she could come back to bother me. But she lost interest in my mother when she went into her Nursing Home, and in theory any interest in terroizing me.
This woman could not be treated. It may be that had she been diagnosed and treated TODAY she would have had a better outcome. No doubt BPD was not as well-understood as it is today.
This is first hand experience, and it is not unknown to many doctors. Nowadays far better inpatient care makes a huge difference. And C was a very serious case.
Rage, stalking behavior, then excessive love and admiration, disregard for the law, excessive sexual activity (causing danger to one's self -- multiple partners or unrequited desire). I don't know what other symptoms this woman had, but DP/DR that is episodic, cutting behaviors and somewhat psychotic states (not long term), are common.
End of story. I was there. It is true.
My mother was a psychiatrist, 1960s/1970s/1980s.
She had a patient, "C" -- a woman who came to her for "mood problems"
My mother saw her for several months when she found out that C was seeing two other psychiatrists in the area. My mother told her she could not see her. The other two doctors also told her this was unethical and dangerous, especially if any medications were being prescribed.
The other two psychiatrists were men (not a lot of women doctors in those days). Well, C became fixated on my mother. She "fell in love with her" but also hated her for not seeing her.
Her reaction to this was:
1. Send love letters to my mother almost every day
2. Send NAKED PHOTOS of herself to my mother in many of these letters
3. Sent a singing Valentine to my mother's office, LOL (I thought that was rather amusing)
4. Because in the old days, we used an answering service that picked up the home phone, C would call multiple times a day driving the answering service crazy. Also, you never knew if YOU might pick up the phone first, and she would be there at the other end of the line.
5. One day C tried to force her way into my mother's office to hug her. My mother had to get a restraining order against her. She could not come within 500 feet of my mother, or she would be arrested. She could not call. She could not come by the house.
Well, that really didn't work as the police would get fed up with that. She parked outside our house. She kept calling. She sent letters/cards/valentines/gifts. She would phone and hang up.
THEN, she went to the hospital where my mother was on staff. She made flyers that stated my mother was an awful doctor and should be fired. As soon as these were taken down, she would put them back up. The hospital had to file some legal action. Fortunately there were security guards at the hospital.
Extreme LOVE, Extreme HATRED and rage.
This behavior began when I was a teenager. It ended when my mother went into a Nursing Home with dementia some 20 years later. She followed me in my car to see what had happened to my mother. I nearly had a stroke I was so terrified.
She also BROKE INTO MY MOTHER'S HOUSE when my mother and I were home. At night around 11pm. What she planned to do we don't know. Police came, tried to chase her down and lost her. We aren't even sure how she got into the house. Changed all the locks, etc.
She also would call and taunt our housekeeper (my nanny really), and follow HER when she would go to the bus stop, or get a ride.
Oddly enough, this woman has a twin sister who does not have BPD. I also keep tabs on where she is as I fear she could come back to bother me. But she lost interest in my mother when she went into her Nursing Home, and in theory any interest in terroizing me.
This woman could not be treated. It may be that had she been diagnosed and treated TODAY she would have had a better outcome. No doubt BPD was not as well-understood as it is today.
This is first hand experience, and it is not unknown to many doctors. Nowadays far better inpatient care makes a huge difference. And C was a very serious case.
Rage, stalking behavior, then excessive love and admiration, disregard for the law, excessive sexual activity (causing danger to one's self -- multiple partners or unrequited desire). I don't know what other symptoms this woman had, but DP/DR that is episodic, cutting behaviors and somewhat psychotic states (not long term), are common.
End of story. I was there. It is true.