Mothers Who Kill: Theresa Knorr

For years, Theresa Knorr abused and tortured her children in various ways, including burning them with cigarettes and beating them. Knorr focused her anger primarily on her daughters and trained her sons to beat, discipline, and restrain their sisters.

Knorr ended up killing her two oldest daughters Suesan and Sheila, Knorr shot Suesan in the back and Suesan recovered.But after her mother removed the bullet from her back with a box cutter Suesan slipped into a coma.

Knorr convinced her two sons to help her get rid of Suesan. They drove to a desolated area, dumped Suesan, poured gasolinr on her and burned her alive.

Symptoms of BPD?

Borderline Personality Disorder manifests itself in several ways, but the following symptoms are the most common among people with BPD:

• Impulsiveness: including excessively spending money, gambling, sex, reckless driving, binge eating, and'or substance abuse.
• Emotional Instability
• Inappropriate Intense Anger: including extreme sarcasm, bitterness, and verbal or physical outbursts lasting anywhere from minutes to a day.
• Suicidal/Self-Harm Behaviors
• Identity Disturbance
• Feelings of Emptiness
• Transient, stress-related personal thoughts
• Boredom
• Chaotic Relationships

People with BPD often feel unworthy, bad, or misunderstood. They have an extreme fear of abandonment and go to frantic efforts to avoid being alone. People with BPD struggle with their sense of self, which leads to frequent changes in jobs, friendships, and goals. BPD is usually coupled with anxiety or depression.

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Criminal BPD Cases

What is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)?

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) (called emotionally unstable personality disorder, borderline type in the ICD-10) is a personality disorder marked by a prolonged disturbance of personality function, characterized by unusual variability and depth of moods. These moods may secondarily affect cognition and interpersonal relations.[n 1]

The disorder typically involves an unusual degree of instability in mood and black-and-white thinking, or splitting. BPD often manifests itself in idealization and devaluation episodes and chaotic and unstable interpersonal relationships, issues with self-image, identity, and behavior; as well as a disturbance in the individual's sense of self. Self-harm and suicidal ideation often leads to the need for mental health aid centres.[1] In extreme cases, this disturbance in the sense of self can lead to periods of dissociation.[2] It is only recognized by the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) in individuals over the age of 18; however, symptoms necessary to establish the disorder can also be found in adolescents. Splitting in BPD includes a switch between idealizing and demonizing others (absolute good or love versus absolute evil or hate with no middle term). This, combined with mood disturbances, can undermine relationships with family, friends, and co-workers. BPD disturbances may also include harm to oneself.[3] Without treatment, symptoms may worsen, leading (in extreme cases) to suicide attempts.[n 2]

There is an ongoing debate among clinicians and patients worldwide about terminology and the use of the word borderline,[4] and some have suggested that this disorder should be renamed.[5] The ICD-10 manual has an alternative definition and terminology to this disorder, called Emotionally unstable personality disorder. There is related concern that the diagnosis of BPD stigmatizes people and supports discriminatory practices.[6]

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