Personality Disorder Case Study Paper

I am going to do my case study paper on a beautiful woman that suffered from many personality disorders so, she was always told. After reading chapter twelve in the textbook, I realized that her number one personality disorder did go underdiagnosed or was misdiagnosed. This lady was fascinating because no matter where she was or who she needed to be at that time she would become it. I always referred to her has being a “chameleon.” Not knowing that, my choice of words could actually refer to a personality disorder. I know now, that this was a psychological problem called “Borderline Personality Disorder.” I can understand though how this could be misdiagnosed because the client may only portray a personality such as being in a maniac or bipolar
This woman had to endure a lot of physical, sexual, verbal, and emotional abuse growing up starting at a very young age. When it comes to “nature” and “nurture” either or were positive attributes to her life. She was never shown love or heard any loving words towards her, and this also applied to the five other children who were adopted into this family. She had to create different personalities I think in order to fit in somewhere and get the attention that she was trying to get for so long. Her personality of the “Chameleon” always put off this sense that she was this rough and tuff, everything is perfect, no bullshit me type of attitude. This was to not allow herself to be put into any vulnerable situation to where she could be hurt again. But, little did she know that this tough exterior showed that this woman had been through some serious stuff and been hurt pretty badly. “In a rather ironic twist of fate these dysfunctional interpretations lead people to behave in such a manner that they unwittingly provoke reactions from other people that are consistent with their misinterpretations” (Hoermann,
There was co-occurring disorders that she had along with borderline personality disorder. The “main” disorder the psychiatrist diagnosed her with was being Maniac/bipolar and suffering from anxiety which “zanax” was prescribed for her. All the while I knew her, she was very “OCD” obsessive-compulsive disorder, but that was never diagnosed. She also, suffered with what we now know today has “PTSD” post-traumatic stress disorder but was not known yet back in the