Borderline Spectrum Test

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Re: Evil

I think these tests often forget that some people really do deal with evil individuals.
I know they were looking to see if we're paranoid etc., but that's not always what it's about.
I've had "evil" people in my life.
They were charged with violent and sadistic crimes, and formally dx'ed as psycho.

I wouldn't want to be considered Borderline just for acknowledging their status.


@FF,

I have trauma too so I can relate to what you're saying about the difficulty forming relationships. In my case I don't want to form many relationships because I don't have the emotional energy to keep up. When I do have relationships I blame myself if things go wrong, rather than blaming the other person. In reality it's usually not anyone's fault. It's more likely we just weren't compatible or the relationship grew apart over time. I experienced that with my female friends growing up, and even with my Maid of Honour. I don't experience it much anymore because I'd rather be alone with my pets or just with MR.

I'm fortunate because I don't work anymore, so I don't have to manage the day-to-day relationships you do. I've had my marriage and my kids and my trauma is supposedly over. Now I can just coast without worrying about relationships - except one, of course.

Trade - uh, maybe not - but you'll be OK. Keep working on your trauma therapy to help with those moments of extreme anxiety or the fear of abandonment.

{{{ hugs }}}

^ The rest of the test seems to have controlled for knowing truly 'evil' people somewhat, since you scored so low on all the metrics. Either way, I don't think you'd ever be classed as borderline solely for having experiences with people you regard as evil. I think statistically we've all probably dealt with someone who is psychopathic or irredeemably vile*, but those relationships are (hopefully) outliers and don't characterise the way your relationships have been with people in general. If you've drifted apart from people and don't blame them solely (if at all) for those relationships naturally fading, then you're not the type of person who thinks 'all people who leave me are evil'.


*I don't mean this to diminish your trauma or the people you've had to deal with. It is definitely a sliding scale as regards how evil these people can be and how deeply they affect our lives, and I know you're on the extreme end of it.

I got low indications.

^ I think 'disagree' was definitely the right call. You are too empathetic a person to see people and relationships in such black-and-white terms, save for the monsters.

I didn't do the test. However I was in the paper once after a court case I had been involved with and I found out that I had bpd from the report. Can't ever remember getting the actual diagnosis though so it's a mystery to me.

I've since been told that I don't really come across as having it so I don't know.

I struggle to understand how they got hold of such information about me to be honest seeing as how I don't even remember getting diagnosed in the first place.

The only time I could have got diagnosed was when I was locked up as a kid but I would have only been about 14 or 15 years old then and I didn't think they could pin such diagnoses on you until you're 18.

Mind you it was a different world back then.

Sounds like BS sensationalism if you ask me.