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Originally Posted by piano97
That's pretty F'd up.
Some axis 2 stuff for sure, don't get much of a BP vibe as others have mentioned.
That is extensive and long-standing manipulation. If there was some episodic components that'd be different but this is pervasive and consistent for what sounds like many many years which equals axis 2.
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That's also my take. I find it suspicious that he is still trying to elicit attention and sympathy, in addition to the suspiciousness of the whole story. Most people with bipolar are not consistent liars. In the original NewYorker article, the author did speak to his psychiatrist and confirmed his diagnosis of Bipolar II.
A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions | The New Yorker
but I wonder if that doctor hasn't been taken in by all his deceptions.