Daveywavey is slicing and dicing:

> a) Of course you can have a borderline borderlne. To be a BPD under
> DSMIV required at least 5 out of 9 characteristics. Someone that has
> 4 isn't BPD, but could be said to have strong borderline traits - as
> opposed to someone that has only 1 or 2.
>
> Everyone has borderline traits. This is a matter of degree. When
> these traits dominate the personality in an inflexible and all
> pervasive manner then that person is likely to be BPD.

Whaaa?

You're as likely to find borderline borderlines as to find North and South
Koreans having a picnic and holding hands in the DMZ. Real borderlines are
as to political systems as North Koreans are to the rest of us. The notion
of borderline borderlines is just one of the many sillinesses that DMS4
inflicts on insurance companies and therefore on the rest of us.

> b) You mention that AR was a DSMIV kaleidoscope. You clearly know
> quite a bit about about psychology - do you think AR had any of the
> Cluster B Personality Disorders? The reason I choose them is that she
> seemed quite an unempathetic person, and Cluster B Personality
> Disorders tend to be "bad people".

Ayn Rand was a really good person. Not one person she ever harmed was locked
in a basement with a ball gag and named "The Gimp." She was no criminal.

I don't remember what Cluster B is. Is that having herpes despite being a
virgin?

Rand was renowned for personal generosity. She was an extremely powerful
personality, and managed to get lots of people to dance to her tune. Her
empathy was legendary, if not her sympathy.

Anyhow, if you were half the man she was, you'd be less worried about what
was wrong with her and more appreciative of what was right.

Mike Lee
Jefferson had slaves. Big effing deal.