Throughout her life she expressed the following five criteria for this disorder: 1. “Significant efforts to avoid imagined abandonment”, 2. “A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation”, 3. “Impulsivity in at least two areas that are self-damaging”, 4. “Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior”, and 5. “Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms” (Barlow …show more content…
Jenny experienced repeated abuse at the hands of her widower father, but she was also abandoned by her mother due to her early death. She could have felt that her mother abandoned her with her father, and she could have also been traumatized by her father’s