Hypothesis: Jim Norton has Borderline Personality Disorder

1  2018-12-16 by cory_stereo

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) - The DSM Criteria

BPD  is a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships,  self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early  adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or  more) of the following:

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  1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. [Not including suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5]
  2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.
  3. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.
  4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, promiscuous sex, eating disorders, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating). [Again, not including suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5]
  5. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior.
  6. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
  7. Chronic feelings of emptiness.
  8. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).
  9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms.

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Remember, Jim only needs to frequently display five of those nine behaviors to qualify as borderline. We know about his love of trannys (who, themselves, used to be considered extreme cases of BPD--before psychiatry became politically correct), his chaturbate token habit, his cutting. I've often wondered if Jim's characters are a mild form of disassociation or identity disturbance, but I'm less sure of that.

What's say you, gents?

15 comments

1  Subeckk 2018-12-16

He for sure has a combination of this and narcissistic personality disorder

1  sams_seed 2018-12-16

K.

1  PrinceAlena 2018-12-16

Textbook case!

Now what to do with such a diagnosis...

1  iWhoreSchortSchorts 2018-12-16

Hypothesis: Jim Norton is just an attention seeking narcissist with no actual mental disorders.

1  iHateAllYouFucks 2018-12-16

He'd love to have a mental disorder, he'd think it'd make him unique.

1  PhishInVa2 2018-12-16

BPD isnt real.

1  jfjfgjgfjdfgjgfjdgfj 2018-12-16

i say being unfunny with an unfunny faggot on a platform that used to be all about funny is offensive

1  3stepsbackward 2018-12-16

He's a borderline; Opie's a narcissist; and Anthony is antisocial. While they tend to overlap in some ways, it mostly fits.

1  literalotherkin 2018-12-16

Hahahha that's a chick thing as well.

1  SueFuckedAnt 2018-12-16

Well, no shit.

1  multiple_migggs 2018-12-16

We know about his cutting? Jimmy is a cutter?

1  TheGhostOfAbeVigoda 2018-12-16

He's a brooder. He sits there and just...brooods.

1  individual02 2018-12-16

You didn’t need to write all of that. He’s in the entertainment industry. Of cause he has a personality disorder.

1  Jungies 2018-12-16

  1. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.

What does that even mean?

Does Chip count?

1  rbtlrdoftkyo 2018-12-16

In other words, he's an insatiable faggot