Manipulative housemate

squiddaisy Joined: Apr 12, '10 Status: New User	2010-04-12 02:11:34
	I live in a house with 5 other girls and I think one of them definitely suffers from this (she was ironically a psychology major) She definitely exaggerates friendships with the other girls which I think she does to try and make me jealous because I'm the only one that catches on to her BS and actively resists it. She gets people to do her grandiose favors and spend money on her and never returns the favor or pays them back, and judges the quality of a friendship based on what people do for her, and often abandons them or "punishes" them with foul behavior when she doesn't get what she wants from them. She doesn't do this to me because she knows I don't give a s--- in the first place. She thinks she's really smart and has all these exotic hobbies I think to prove she's really interesting to other people and to herself. She often walks around naked and shows off her body really obviously, and once came into my room rubbing lotion on her naked body to show off to me or some s---. Luckily, I see through this girl's plots so we've actually had some meaningful interactions that aren't power struggles but I don't think it's worth the constant anxiety of living with her. I always feel like I'm competing in some bizarre way. She's also really sexual with people, even the girls we live with and has tons of over-lapping, never fully closed relationships with men. She has claimed to still be in love with all these men at various points, and has done self destructive sexual and emotional things to these ends. Does she have this disorder? Should I tell her to seek help or should I just move out and rid my life of her?
Cindy Joined: Mar 22, '10 Status: Junior User	2010-04-12 06:42:03
	She probably has this and maybe borderline personality disorder,and maybe narcissism but telling her she has a problem will not help if she studies psyche and doesn't recognize that she is acting oddly. My suggestion is that, if you want to tell her, go ahead but move out when you tell her. It could get ugly.
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