When Covert Borderline Collapses into Malignant Narcissist or Borderline
August 28, 2025
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No such thing as comorbidities (co-occurrences) or pure (type constant) categorical types: these are mere artifacts of flawed DSM. The ICD does not yield comorbidities or pure types.
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Had the time to observe covert borderlines in the wild.
Collapse in classic pathological narcissism (failure to maintain appearances) vs. collapse in covert borderline (substantive failure in relationship or career).
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In career-related collapse, False Self rendered grandiose (cognitively distorted, impaired reality testing, defiance, contumaciousness, externalized mainly verbal aggression, recklessness) Malignant Narcissist
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In interpersonal collapse, locus of control becomes external (clinging, needy, codependent, mood labile, dysregulated affects and behaviors, passive-aggression, primiscuity sadistic, punitive, splitting, switching, cycling)Borderline
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In both states of collapse: dissociation, confabulation, acting out, paranoid ideation, attention-seeking
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