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Personality Disorders of the Real Housewives
Read on to see how my mother compares to a couple of the housewives. I have highlighted the characteristics that describe Mommie Dearest
Her diagnosis of Teresa sounds like my mother:
Emotionally Unstable Personality, Impulsive Type at least three of the following must be present:
■Marked tendency to act unexpectedly and without consideration of the consequences
■Marked tendency to quarrelsome behavior and to conflicts with others (my mother must maintain and cause conflicts amongst her children to amintain her feeling of control)
■Liability to outbursts of anger or violence without ability to control the resulting behavioral explosions
■Difficulty in maintaining any course of action that offers no immediate reward
■Unstable and capricious mood
But then Danielle's "diagnosis" also is very Liz-Like:
She has a Tony Soprano type charm I do think Danielle fits the profile for antisocial personality disorder and is indeed a psychopath. Judge for yourself though. Diagnosis is made by observation of a majority of these behaviors:
Selfish, callous and remorseless use of others:
■Glibness/superficial charm (smooth-talking, engaging and slick)
■Grandiose sense of self-worth (greatly inflated idea of one’s abilities and self-esteem, arrogance and a sense of superiority)
■Pathological lying
■Conning/manipulative (uses deceit to cheat others for personal gain)
■Lack of remorse or guilt (no feelings or concern for losses, pain and suffering of others)
■Emotional poverty (limited range or depth of feelings)
■Callous/lack of empathy (a lack of feelings toward others; cold, contemptuous and inconsiderate)
■Failure to accept responsibility for own actions
Chronically unstable, antisocial and socially deviant lifestyle:
■Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom (an excessive need for new, exciting stimulation and risk-taking)
■Parasitic lifestyle (exploitative financial dependence on others)
■Poor behavioral control (frequent verbal abuse and inappropriate expressions of anger)
■Promiscuity (numerous brief, superficial sexual affairs)
■Lack of realistic, long-term goals
■Impulsivity
■Irresponsibility (repeated failure to fulfill or honor commitments and obligations)
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