I have known bipolar people and they dont act like that. The behavior you described is textbook psychopath.

I worked with a person like this and everyone hated him. He was an ethnic person and all similar ethnic coworkers hated him as much as anybody because he had screwed them over just as badly as anyone else. He eventually got sick enough he had to quit work and nobody went to see him.

My point here is that this person acted similarly to your daughter and had zero remorse for anybody he screwed. Lying was just a means to an end.

Unfortunately I have no advice for you.

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Posted by tunechi

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Posted on 5/2/24 at 5:42 pm to GetmorewithLes

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I have known bipolar people and they dont act like that.

For fricks sake HE’S NOT SAYING SHE’S BIPOLAR

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Posted by BluegrassBelle

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Posted on 5/3/24 at 9:07 am to GetmorewithLes

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I have known bipolar people and they dont act like that. The behavior you described is textbook psychopath.

Bipolar and BPD are two different disorders. And yes, people with BPD at the intensity we’re discussing do act like that.

This is part of the DSM-5 criteria for diagnosing BPD

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A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by 5 (or more) of the following:

Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behaviour covered in criterion 5.

A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.

Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self. Impulsivity in at least 2 areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating). Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behaviour covered in criterion 5.

Recurrent suicidal behaviour, gestures or threats, or self-mutilating behaviour.

Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days).

Chronic feelings of emptiness. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).

Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms.