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I mean, she seems like she has some diagnosable psychological disorder. Any thoughts on this? Obviously you can't diagnose someone over TV, but her behavior seems to fit the pattern of Borderline Personally Disorder.
Regardless, she has so little self awareness, and is so immature, manipulative, and insecure. I don't think she really knows who she is, which seems to be why she switches between thinking she's lady Gaga, to being way too nice, to her most common vindictive horribleness.
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The real question is what isn’t wrong with Christine?
I have BPD and I dont personally think she has it. if anything (as we cant diagnose her ourselves) I would say she is more on the narcisstic side of the spectrum. She has obviously had it rough growing up and it makes her feel good about herself to be a bully and she doesnt take full responsibility for her actions or feel guilty or shame, whereas people with BPD generally are very self aware and even after they get angry or act destructively, usually feel a huge amount of shame and guilt. Thats my opinion of it anyway.
"I was bullied for being tall" Wears high heels that look like they're gonna snap 24/7
In fairness I was bullied for being tall. I love high heels, and the shoes are more a win than anything else. I don’t want to hold myself back in shame of being too tall. It’s a thing. I’m 5’11”.
You're 4 cm taller than me. I mesnt my comment as a joke and Christine's heels are always extreme.
Personally I don't like wearing heels as I find them uncomfortable. I don't see any reason to be ashamed of height though
Same
Yeah she totally made that up for sympathy, and probably believes it because she self-victimizes herself. I doubt anything she's said is true.
Yeah, I am super self aware of my condition and I find it kind of annoying that someone is armchair diagnosing someone they have only seen for a small amount of time.
Especially if they dont even have the disorder or know anything about it but whatever
Agreed
Yeah as another person with bpd this point is annoying and highly stigmatizing lol I’m sure no harm was meant and personality disorders can look alike or over lap but definitely anyone who’s had it or knows a lot about it know people with bpd usually suffer childhood trauma and are VERY sensitive, she seems to not give a flying fuck about anyone but herself fitting NPD while BPD you’re most destructive to yourself. Maybe histrionic personality disorder but yeah diagnosing someone over a show is a reach
Preach!!!
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Totally agreed. Not even sure if she fits the bill for NPD... Here’s a list of symptoms:
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 sense of entitlement (i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations).
Is interpersonally exploitative (i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends).
Lacks empathy: 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.
Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.
The only reason I thought she could be a narcissist and I didnt say she had the personality disorder as its not for us to even know that is because my mum is a psychotherapist and she told me that narcissistic people or people with NPD usually are that way due to them being very very insecure so it becomes their defence mechanism and sometimes they dont even know that they are acting that way. They could be completely innocent in their mind. I could be way off though, we only see her on screen we dont actually know much about her so it is hard to say.
That actually sounds a lot like her. Obviously we don't really know and we only see an edited version of her.
Those all seem to fit. You’ve got to remember it’s edit and set up but what we see does tick all those criteria
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Her diagnosis is being a bad actress.
Or maybe she’s a good actress with a very bad script.
Very true! I actually like her and find her entertaining.
You know, people don't have to have some kind of diagnosable condition to be bad people. They can just be bad people.
Wait are y'all being serious? Have y'all never watched Adam Divello's other shows The Hills and The City? They always have to have an exaggerated villain. This article talks about all the things that were fake in The Hills and how it was unfairly edited. In order for there to be drama and for each episode to be interesting they have to overreact about small things that normally wouldn't bother them. Adam Divello has even talked about how each episode of Selling Sunset has to end it with a cliffhanger and how they still have an A, B, and C storyline in most episodes like scripted tv.
Christine just thinks highly of herself and thought people liked her last season, so she tried to really play it up this this season and acted fake a lot of the time and she obviously needs a little more acting practice. Christine has even said herself in season 1, when she said, "This bitch doesn't even cook!?" it actually wasn't a client she was saying that to. That was one of her best friends.
I'm not a fan of Christine because I personally think she is annoying, so I'm not trying to be pro-Christine. I just think you can't take things so seriously of how people are acting on the show and translate that into real life. I have a degree in Psychology and Borderline Personality Disorder is a serious condition. I think everything the OP said in the 2nd paragraph is totally understandable because everybody is allowed to have their own opinion. I think suggesting BPD in the first paragraph crosses an ethical line when we start hypothesizing about somebody's mental state and the popularity of diagnosing non-patients can normalize sickness. It can make behavior that is actually normal seem unhealthy. It also minimizes the gravity of what people experience with these conditions.
So true! All this hate for a mostly fictional character lol. Just have fun with it guys!
i really think she might have histrionic personality disorder.
Does anyone else see Histrionic traits in her behavior? Like highly inflated sense of self? The grandiose responses, always talking in extremes, using flowery and convincing language but never really saying anything in particular, never says anything of substance unless it’s campaigning? She feels like she’s so awesome that she’s even above rules, social norms, and ethics/laws. Super charming and can’t stand not being the center of attention, even to go as far as making herself a victim, so long as someone thinks she’s the greatest, she doesn’t actually have to face herself and reflect on her behavior towards people.
Nailed it.
Christine is absolutely exhausting the life out of me. I actually dated a guy with a personality like that, it was just an otherworldly nightmare. The wild stories he would make up. He lied about me to everyone he knew, the had multiple lives which he always separated and hid from me and from his own family and colleagues, it was really disturbing. We were together on and of for two years and when we were in a good place or so I thought, we were talking about marriage. And then I found out the truth about him living with his ex girlfriend all throughout those two years, wow. I don’t understand people like that. He would invent these entire stories and just tell lie after lie, he even continued to lie when he was found out. People like that definitely have a personality disorder, they just make up multiple realities and they gaslight everyone around them. It’s extremely damaging. They do know what they’re doing. They just don’t care about the consequences of their actions in how it will affect other people and that’s where lies the mental illness: it comes from a lack of empathy and a heightened sense of self importance (narcissistic).
Christine definitely needs treatment and I mean like hardcore treatment. She also reminds me a lot of a relative that I keep at arms length no matter what. There is definitely something going on psychologically. If she doesn’t work on it, she will wake up one day and have nobody to call.
It could be a combo of NPD & BPD and added Psychopathy too.
I have two sisters, one has BPD she is aware, but she never felt guilty about her unprovoked outbursts to others. She is not narcissistic.
The other one definitely has NPD and a lower grade BPD and I think even a low grade psychopathy. This combo can make a person highly manipulative. Literally for the survival of their own multiple false realities that they’ve created and that they are trying to make everyone to believe in.
People who create false realities may have had hard childhoods / adolescence.
The false realities are coping mechanisms. But that doesn’t mean that the rest of the world should allow their wild gaslighting and lies. Because this is very damaging who are being gaslighted 24/7. It’s damaging their mental health.
So someone like Christine should receive treatment. And the people around her just have to keep the communication at the basic minimum and not fall in her traps and drama. Don’t go over things one million times. People like Christine have to face their problems in therapy. The damage done to her co-workers is done. Don’t look for acknowledgment from Christine , she will never give it to you because that would mean she would have to give up the false realities that she’s created for herself and she will never do that.
People who have been damaged by people like Christine should seek therapy for themselves too to get over the trauma.
I think she was picked on in high school and wished for vengeance so she made herself into a popular bitchy girl caricature and wants to make the world pay
Yup
Psychopathy
People with BPD on this saying that’s not her issue buttt she reminds me so much of my own sister that’s diagnosed with BPD… maybe someone’s been misdiagnosed here