BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER DEPICTED IN THE MAIN CHARACTER OF THE NETFLIX SERIES YOU

The study examines the main character, Joe Goldberg, who exhibits symptoms of borderline personality disorder as they are portrayed in the Netflix series You. The study applied borderline personality disorder theory in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR). The writer employed a qualitative descriptive method to analyze the data. Joe exhibited 6 symptoms from nine symptoms of BPD. Particularly, unstable and intense relationships, impulsivity, frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment, chronic feelings of emptiness, and identity disturbance. Unstable relationships and impulsivity are the most dominant symptoms. Identity disturbance is the least dominant symptom. There are two causing factors of BPD, namely, genetic and environmental factors. It was found that Joe’s BPD caused by environmental factor. The environmental factors are emotional neglect, neglect, and physical abuse. Emotional neglect is the most dominant factor that caused Joe’s BPD. Neglect and physical abuse are the second dominant factors. In conclusion, Joe’s childhood environment factors, such as emotional neglect had a major impact on the development of his BPD. Emotional neglect linked to several BPD symptoms Joe exhibited, namely unstable interpersonal relationships, identity disturbance, and chronic feelings of emptiness. Because of neglect in supervision during his childhood, Joe showed BPD symptom of frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. The physical abuse that Joe experienced as a child shows his impulsivity and transient stress-related to paranoid ideation or dissociative symptoms.