The animal was diagnosed with "Borderline Personality Disorder", but it looks as if reporters managed to use "traits of a personality disorder". Substantial differences. BPD is the border between reality and Hell. Unmedicated, the highs of self-esteem are intense, the lows debilitating. The mania can cause violent outbursts with more strength than normal. He built a room, stopped taking his meds, lured and slaughtered an innocent man. That's not an impulse gone awry.
Bipolar/ Manic depression is treated with medications and is associated with varying levels of Mania.
Unmedicated, the highs of self-esteem are intense, the lows debilitating. The
mania can cause violent outbursts with more strength than normal.
Mania is associated with Manic Depression and Categorized as Bipolar 1 and Bipolar 2. Mania can then be divided into hypomania and hypermania.
Every person has a personality that has varying characteristics, and if one person tends to have more markers present under a certain category of personality types it is coined a disorder, when it interrupts a person's interpersonal relationships.
Personality disorders are more often than not, by itself or in comparison to any other diagnosis, commonly misdiagnosed, because there are no cures or medications to treat one's personality to understand and compare if one is truly one or the other. Much of the diagnosis is based on guesswork.
One of the most severe and disabling of psychiatric illness is paranoid schizophrenia.
I could not imagine a person's state of being if they suffer from Bipolar 1 with Hypermania/Hypermanic states while subsequently being afflicted with Paranoid Schizophrenia. The 2 are difficult enough for one person to manage alone, but together would clearly drive one to a point of insanity, imo.
