9 Game Of Thrones Characters With Severe Personality Disorders

6. Lysa Arryn

Borderline Personality Disorder

Intense emotional outbursts, disturbed identity, chaotic relationships, extreme thinking, concerns about abandonment ... ringing any bells?

Her relationship with Petyr is very push/pull (although slightly more "push" in the end, HEY OH), swinging wildly between love and hate. She shows her capacity to switch between extremes of mood and thought at the drop of a hat and has a deep anxiety related to abandonment.

Her identity is so entwined with and defined by others - Petyr, Catelyn, Robin - that she appears not to have an identity of her own. She feels her emotions with extreme intensity and is highly sensitive to the way others treat her, with even the tiniest act of kindness or cruelty being met with wild happiness, sadness and anger.

Poor Robin didn't really stand a chance.

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