An Abnormal Psychology Study Using Stressors and Symptoms for a Hypothetical Individual with Borderline Personality Disorder and a Comparison with the Physio-Pathology Study Using Lifestyle Details and Glucoses from an Individual with Type 2 Diabetes by Applying the Concepts from Viscoelastic and Viscoplastic Glucose Theory (VGT #12) Based on GH-Method: Math-Physical Medicine (No.591)

Abstract

Gerald C Hsu

The majority of this article focuses on stressors and symptoms of a hypothetical patient with borderline personality disorder (BPD) during the period from Y2010 to Y2022. The example cited is a purely hypothetical patient with BPD conditions. The author has accumulated knowledge on abnormal psychology since 2002 and augmented it from his established five psychotherapy centers to care for approximately 200 abused women and abandoned children from 2006 to 2010. Due to confidentiality, he cannot reveal any of their identities, but their general stories or commonly observed behaviors have been included in the hypothetical BPD case.

Psychology is an empirical science and, at times, it is easier to describe in words stressors (root causes), symptoms, behaviors, reactions, and/or treatments; however, it is more difficult to describe them in numbers, a quantitative manner, even though most psychological research works are based on statistics only, but not based on any branches of natural science. The author self-studied, observed, and managed abnormal psychology therapy for 9-years, from 2002 to 2010. He has read approximately 100 textbooks and 500+ clinical reports during that period. Based on his findings, he tried to develop some “scientific” formula-based equations with a quantitation and precision approach to study and research abnormal psychology. Here, the word “scientific” means observing physical phenomena, applying physics principles, deriving mathematical equations, building engineering modeling, and utilizing computer and artificial intelligence tools - not applying statistics tools alone. Since 2010, it has been difficult to collect and utilize data from patients with Personality Disorder (PD) without breaching professional ethics and patient confidentiality. The author has given up his original idea of using the developed math-physical medicine research approach (MPM) for the psychology field. In the summer of 2010, when his health conditions became life-threatening due to severe type 2 diabetes (T2D) complications, he launched his GH-Method: math-Physical medicine (MPM) research approach on metabolism, endocrinology, and food nutrition to save his own life. To date, he has written and published nearly 600 medical papers using the  MPM method. This particular paper is one of his few attempts to apply his developed MPM methodology to the abnormal psychology field of BPD. The author hopes to continue his psychological research by using more of the MPM approach. He appreciates the invaluable inputs, comments, criticisms, and suggestions from his colleagues regarding the area of abnormal psychology.

In summary, although this article mainly focused on a psychological case study with hypothetical data from any BPD patient, it was also complemented with a physio-pathological case study with the collected data of an actual T2D patient.

When the author displays the two case results together using a space diagram (SD) of stress (causes) versus strain (symptoms), these two case results have demonstrated an observed viscoplastic behavior, e.g. time-dependency, non- convergence between the initial period data and ending period data, and hysteresis loops (energy loss through loading and unloading process). By using descriptive psychology language, it can illustrate the viscoplastic BPD behavior that their stressors and symptoms are changing from time to time which does not have the same pattern at the initial and ending states of a selected period. Furthermore, this up-and-down orloading-and-unloading cycle creates a loss of energy for the BPD patient, while coping with this disorder.

This means that the BPD psychological data pattern follows the natural physics law which is similar to the T2D data pattern. Therefore, the engineering theories and models of elasticity, plasticity, viscoelasticity, viscoplasticity, and energy may be suitable tools for the author’s future investigations of human psychological behaviors.

It should be noted that the BPD psychological case with simplified hypothetical data is different from the T2D physio-pathological case with the collected real data. The two datasets have different scales which cause varying hysteresis loop area sizes; therefore, it makes no sense to compare the sizes. 

To examine the details of both glucoses of T2D and symptoms of BPD, we notice that the T2D patient’s glucose improves while the BPD patient’s symptoms become worse. The isolated peaceful and non-traveling lifestyle has contributed to better glucoses for the T2D patient, but the fear and loneliness associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and its quarantine lifestyle contribute to the symptoms of BPD.

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