No, not a novel. I think people who have never had a relationship with a Borderline Personality need the information and, if we talk about it, they may have the insight that some of the people whose behavior was inexplicable was a Borderline.
I was all for Jodi Arias being a psycopath but, really, Borderline can be just as terrifying.
What you end up doing with a Borderline is asking "What did I do to deserve this?" The answer is nothing, but when the Borderline is on the dark side it doesn't take much. Lacking that, they will manipulate and provoke a response. As you said, this kind of game fills up the empty. Also, it allows them to never have to own their own failures. It's always someone else's fault. Mostly yours.
The best way to think of a Borderline if you are so unfortunate to find yourself in a relationship with one is to think of them as short-term bipolar in their attitude towards you. With mine I had all the fun of recrimination, revenge by proxy and even a faked pregnancy tossed in there.
You are right about "beating with a baseball bat".
Someone once once wrote a lay explanation of the Laws of Thermodynamics likening it to a poker game:
You can't win.
You can't break even
You can't leave the game.
That's what a Borderline does: Your choices are to alternately be an abuser or a doormat.The fortunate thing is the above analogy breaks down on number three, because you can leave the game.
And if you know what you are dealing with, you may not be so unfortunate as to leave the game like Travis Alexander.
