Retrial for Sentencing of Jodi Arias - Day 15

[Tuba]

There is nothing more depressing than awareness your plan went abysmally awry. Have another med, Arias.

 

[dog.gone.cute]

From WAT:

Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial · 30s 31 seconds ago


Jennifer has sparkly salmonurple nails today. They show up well on the overhead projectile unit. #JodiArias



:hilarious: sparkly nails ... she must have went to MLDR's manicurist !

 

[bsk]

so they screwed up their 2008 copy as well and want jm to provide them another one so they can copy it and return it to him? I don't think they've been able to provide one copy of either the 2008 or 2009 copies that has not been altered by them? Is that correct?

bingo!

 

[Nali87]

Jen's Trial Diaries ‏@TrialDiariesJ 58s58 seconds ago
Geffner is seeing Jodi was focused while taking test. #jodiarias had high anxiety #3tvarias

 

[BritsKate]

Borderline Personality D/O fits JA (IMO)

Huge issues of abandonment,
hot then cold
love thne hate
friend then foe
black then white . . . .

It's not at all unusual for a cluster B, axis II disorder to be concurrent with another disorder or illness. Like depression and narcissistic personality disorder, as just one of thousands of examples. It also isn't impossible for a borderline to also be histrionic, or avoidant, etc. The four disorders grouped within Cluster B, axis II are very, very closely related which can sometimes lead to an incorrect, or incomplete, diagnosis. Here's the 'cornerstones' of the personality disorders I believe relate to Jodi, per psych central. I've always doubted she's just borderline, if she is at all. All four disorders have extreme difficulty maintaining interpersonal relationships. JMO

Borderline (as dx'd):

• Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
• A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation
• Identity disturbance, such as a significant and persistent unstable self-image or sense of self
• Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)
• Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior
• Emotional instability due to significant reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
• Chronic feelings of emptiness
• Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)
• Transient, stress-related paranoid thoughts or severe dissociative symptoms

Narcissistic:

• Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
• Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
• Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
• Requires excessive admiration
• Has a very strong sense of entitlement, e.g., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
• Is exploitative of others, e.g., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
• Lacks empathy, e.g., is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
• Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
• Regularly shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes

Antisocial:

• Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest
• Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure
• Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
• Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults
• Reckless disregard for safety of self or others
• Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations
• Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another

 

[dog.gone.cute]

From WAT:


Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial · 1m 1 minute ago

Nurmis chair almost looks like a first class seat on British Airways. Reclinated and flat like a bed. #JodiArias


Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial · 22s 23 seconds ago

Lunch recess.

Back at 1:25 with the average @kinseyschofield. Thanks for following!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Hope4More]

Jen's Trial Diaries ‏@TrialDiariesJ 2m2 minutes ago Phoenix, AZ
FRS Scale is fears- Does someone have a lot of fears? Her general fears were just a little above normal #jodiarias #3tvarias

Jen's Trial Diaries ‏@TrialDiariesJ 1m1 minute ago Phoenix, AZ
It didn't show Jodi was very obsessed or angry..her anger was low #jodiarias #3tvarias

Duh. That's because she had already slaughtered the person who made her angry.

 

[rose222]

The anxiety/stress one feels after murdering someone in cold-blood is a mitigating factor? :thinking:

 

[Nali87]

There is nothing more depressing than awareness your plan went abysmally awry. Have another med, Arias.

:laughing:

 

[Truth Detector]

From WAT:

Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial · now

Now that I met Willmott the other day I feel like I should call her Jennifer or Jenny. Thoughts? #JodiArias


:hilarious: I have one, but I like it here ... so :silenced:

Jay-Dubs

 

[Nali87]

Jen's Trial Diaries ‏@TrialDiariesJ 2m2 minutes ago Phoenix, AZ
Lunch recess till 1:25pm MST #jodiarias #3tvarias

:drumroll:

 

[geevee]

The one thing this court never wastes time with is breaking for lunch.

 

[memoriesbymichelle]

Duh. That's because she had already slaughtered the person who made her angry.

Exactly what I was going to say. She's not angry at Travis anymore. She took care of that.
How can doing a test now show ANYTHING about her emotions back at the time of the murder anyway. Can't show state of mind then.

 

[LambChop]

There is nothing more depressing than awareness your plan went abysmally awry. Have another med, Arias.

I agree. Facing the DP, wouldn't these be normal fears and anxieties?

 

[Hope4More]

JSS didn't repeat the order today, but she did order it last week. And now she wants to listen to the audio of JM's interview with BN, I'm guessing to hear whether or not he's refusing to turn over that encrypted copy. JM says he refused and JW says he didn't. Either way, JM doesn't have it yet, and unless JSS does something pretty quick, he won't have it when he interviews BN on Jan 3rd either. Hopefully JSS plans on listening to that tape after court today...assuming of course, that JW remembers to turn it over to her. <sigh>

The fact is, who cares what he did or did not say, and why in the heck is she so easily led to that goose chase rather than simply demanding now that it be turned over now.

 

[Mindmatters]

Don't you think Jodi's "issues" in 2008 might have changed some since she has been incarcerated for six and one-half years? If she has PTSD, it wasn't caused by Travis or even her parents. It was caused by her especially cruel murder of TA, especially when she found that police had proof that she was the murderer. She showed last year that she didn't suffer in silence. She was the aggressor, even in her comments on Twitter last year about Juan, Nancy Grace, etc. She slaughtered Travis in 2008. Since the beginning of 2013, she has continued stabbing him and his family by all of these false accusations. She has no soul!

Well one thing that may well have changed is treatment. It is likely that JA is receiving some type of pharmacological treatment as a result of her being put on suicide watch following the verdict in the guilt phase. So as far as the alleged PTSD goes, yes there could be changes. But as for the BPD,and I think co-morbidity of NPD, of which she has been appropriately diagnosed, it is a stable and pervasive condition with complex symptomology. Medication can treat some of the symptoms but the underlying and most difficult disturbances of this condition (which require cognitive restructuring) are most effectively treated, to date, with DBT--which may or may not be a treatment option in AZ's correctional settings.

 

[Tuba]

I'm still trying to figure out why Geffner drew a cartoon of Bryan Neumeister in profile.

 

[rose222]

Kicking her mother, squeezing a cat too hard, slashing tires and almost decapitating Travis. No anger? Okay then!

 

[Nali87]

SOME BONUS TWEETS

Katie Conner &#8207;@KatieJConner 12m12 minutes ago
Geffner: The MMPI-2 test has over 567 questions #JodiArias #TravisAlexander #abc15

Cathy retweeted
Carolyn Sung &#8207;@CarolynSungCNN 12m12 minutes ago
#jodiarias appears to be writing something down, as Dr. G goes over test results.

Cathy retweeted
Chris Williams &#8207;@chriswnews 14m14 minutes ago
Dr Geffner: MMPI scales shows response from general personality not just one event. #JodiArias

Carolyn Sung &#8207;@CarolynSungCNN 7m7 minutes ago
Dr. G continues w/ test results. #jodiarias was not an angry person, no more than average. Also, no pattern of doing things against the law

 

[Katharine]

From WAT:

Wild About Trial @WildAboutTrial · 16s 16 seconds ago


On to page 5 of the MMCI-2.

No more sweet circles have been drawn yet. #JodiArias


-----Anyone know how many pages this MMCI is ? TIA !

From what I have read the MMCI-2 has 567 true/false questions (have no idea on page count) and takes 30 to 90 minutes to complete.

http://psychcentral.com/lib/minnesota-multiphasic-personality-inventory-mmpi/0005959