Not to say that someone with BPD can not be hypersensitive to perceived affronts by others, but it's just not a feature that I think of nor is it a criteria that is specifically mentioned in DSM V:
1.Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
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., substance abuse, binge eating, and reckless driving)
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
However, features 2, 4, 8, and 9 seem to hit LJ on the money and some of the internal attributes may also be accurate. An indication of five or more of the above may indicate a positive diagnosis, but clearly such things can not be done in the absence of additional personal information and actually meeting with the individual...
RE: DIAGNOSIS - People with mental health problems can have a blend of disorders, symptoms, traits, behavior patterns. Patients/clients can have more than one disorder concurrently. Diagnoses are not always cut and dried, black and white. It would take a battery of tests and multiple interviews to get a precise DSM-V diagnosis of JLM.
JLM has shown these symptoms:
- Self-absorption, self-focus - concerned for his own critter comforts (clothing, bathing, mattress) in Texas while he was before the judge.
- Detachment, denial, dissociation - ability to separate himself from his offenses, to hide behind a nice, friendly, happy Christian guy persona volunteer coaching at a Christian school, all while being an angry, violent, rapist/murderer and preying, hunting victims in local bars by night, yet carry on as the good boy with his family
- Cunning, subtlety, dishonesty, self-protection - ability to persuade courts and legal people to lessen or forgive his many offenses from speeding, to driving without a license, registration to assault and the ability to change his appearance and facial expression (raised eyebrows, fuller lips and cheeks, considerable weight gain, dreadlocks) that would identify him as a wanted capital offense criminal. The ability to hide his victims in remote places where they are not likely to be discovered, so his DNA and the marks of his violent assaults will not be present on their bodies.
You can bet the FBI and the Academy Group profilers and forensic psychologists are able to put him in the right box or boxes.
PS - I do not see BPD as part of JLM's Dx. IMO - he's a narcissist/sociopath. Remember, these people have endured extreme negative conditioning (relational, environmental, physical, emotional) that creates these disorders. This does not excuse them from legal culpability, but explains their traits, temperaments and tendencies to a degree.