Projection & Other BPD Behavior in Television and Movies

[Artisan]

Having gone through the song threads about BPD and break-ups ... .and having read and had many discussions about BPD behavior ... .my interest is in having examples for us to see in popular culture.

It is my opinion that a lot of the personalities depicted in sitcoms are neurotic, and some are certainly disordered. So for us to have something to go see and watch may educate us all.

Could you share some television shows, characters, movies and perhaps books that demonstrate the kinds of behaviors that have been lived through in real life ?

It may give us a visual and something a little more concrete to use as examples and dialogue about for understanding behavior and the responses (and fiction of relationships) presented in modern media.

For instance, I'd say Don Draper in Mad Men is a great example of a narcissist.

There was a movie I watched a few months ago, and the behavior of the main female character was just like my ex ; and in the movie she was depicted as a crazy out of control woman. Wish I could remember the name of the movie, perhaps it will come to me.

Regardless, have at it please.

[Blimblam]

I'm the film Byzantium it's a vampire movie but the two main characters are clearly two aspects of a borderline personality.

The film dark skies is a horror film but if you just watched the character interactions as if it was a normal film it the mother is borderline and shows the family dynamics of creating a disordered child. This film really hit home for me because they covertly cover the phenomena of sleep paralysis which I have experienced and seen the beings they are talking about and my brother was the "taken" child. He is basically a BPD/sociopath.

Black swan shows the borderline personality and it's duality. As well as the controlling mother aka the punitive parent. The old ballerina displays the borderline once she feels she's been rejected.

Sliver linings play book the girl is clearly borderline. They refer to her other relationships to show the rest of the story of how things end after the film ends.

In 12 years a slave if you view all the female characters aspects of one personality along with the second slave master you have a borderline personality.

Alice in wonderland is sort of the upside down world in a borderline personalities head and the different Charachters are aspects of her personality and her interactions with others.

[Blimblam]

Another came to mind the film nurse with Paz de Huerta. She plays more of a BPD/psychopath although I am fairly certain she is BPD in real life I mean she's the siren she always seems to play a borderline in every role she is in.

[Blimblam]

Flipped on the tv and found another one

There's something about Mary. Mary and her brother as one character represent the BPD personality then you have all these guys that can't get her out of their mind and they are obsessed.

[Blimblam]

Just watched a film called sinister

It's about an ancient "diety" that comes and steals children's souls. Basically a reference to how a pd is created using  the horror film format and alluding to researching alchemy and ancient mythology to see how it was explained in the past before the modern era.

Basically if you can think back and remember to around age 3 or 4 the boogeyman was real then that fear and dread all those times we felt that the boogeyman took that part of our light and when we turned 7 that gate in our mind closed and formed a boundary and the lost parts of our self are being held their by that fear.

[neverloveagain]

Clemantine in eternal sunshine of the spotless mind does it for me. 

[AlwaysForgiving]

Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader meets 6 out of 9 criteria for BPD... .

www.livescience.com/10679-psychology-darth-vader-revealed.html

[Recooperating]

I recently saw August: Osage County. A movie with meryl streep and julia roberts. Screams BPD! Very dysfunctional family! Cheating, addiction, raging, projection, gaslighting... .A lot of devaluation... .

[Artisan]

I remembered the movie ... .it was the main female role in the movie "My super ex-girlfriend" played by Uma Thurman.

Blim, I saw Byzantine ... .spot on and good call! Those women and their control structures are certainly neurotic ... .literally blood sucking vampires, not too far from how much of us feel with BPD relationship!

The psychology of darth vader ; wow ... .interesting! And very insightful!

[Blimblam]

I remembered the movie ... .it was the main female role in the movie "My super ex-girlfriend" played by Uma Thurman.

Blim, I saw Byzantine ... .spot on and good call! Those women and their control structures are certainly neurotic ... .literally blood sucking vampires, not too far from how much of us feel with BPD relationship!

The psychology of darth vader ; wow ... .interesting! And very insightful!

Yes in Byzantium the daughter the orphan represents the abandoned child aspect of the borderline. She "remembers everything," and it such a "burdain."

Pretty much the entire genre of film noire had a BPD women character as the femme fattale.

A very interesting take on the noire is the film the ninth gate, WATCH IT!