Case Lab · Type B · Transfer

F60

Turbulent, but is it pervasive?

A 24-year-old describes herself as someone who 'feels things intensely' and has had two breakups in the past year that she describes as devastating at the time. Aside from these two relationships, she holds a stable job, has several long-term friendships she describes as steady and satisfying, and reports no other area of her life where her relationships or sense of self feel unstable. A colleague comments that she is 'a bit dramatic sometimes,' but there is no pattern of impulsivity, chronic emptiness, identity disturbance, or recurrent self-harm described.