That's further complicated by Love's trajectory throughout the season. Seen mostly through Joe's first-person perspective as a lovable, if not a bit naïve, young woman longing for love after experiencing her own trauma, she is revealed to be suffering from severe PTSD.
Love has the typical impulsive type of BPD and it is known that BPD links with psychopathy which is why she has episodes of impulsiveness and murders people due to her unstable emotions.
Now don't get me wrong, both Joe and Love are murderers and psychopaths. Neither of them are good people. But at least Joe was methodical and careful in his approach to murdering people.
Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg who has erotomania in the Netflix hit 'You'. (Image: pennbadgley/Instagram) Erotomania is a rare and often misunderstood psychiatric disorder characterized by a delusional belief that someone is in love with the affected person.
Love is cunning and analytical, being able to figure what the perfect meal is for Joe, and manipulated many events for him to stay with her. She is also strategic, as she tells Joe of her plan to have Ellie fall for the murders, but knows she won't be arrested because of her family's connections.
So here's an overall recap of how many people Love Quinn has killed: Overall, Love Quinn has directly murdered five people. These are: Sofia, Delilah, Candace, Natalie and her husband, James.
Love Quinn is not patient. She is not kind. She is full of envy. And she is quite easily angered.
Scott did say, though, that the closest clinical diagnosis to a "psychopath" or "sociopath" is antisocial personality disorder, and that Goldberg does indeed show some hallmark traits of the disorder. He also demonstrates characteristics of narcissistic personality disorder, experts say.
Upon arriving in London, Joe develops such an obsession with Rhys after reading his autobiography, A Good Man in a Cruel World, which Joe closely identifies with. Then the hallucinations start. “He's really desperate to see himself as a good person,” says Gamble.
The latest season finally gives main character Joe Goldberg's condition a name—erotomania. It's a delusional disorder in which someone has an unfounded belief that a person of a perceived higher social status (like a famous musician or actor) is in love with them.
In stark contrast from You season 1's Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail), You season 2's Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti), and You season 3's Marienne (Tati Gabrielle), You season 4 chooses Rhys Montrose (Ed Speelers), a London mayoral aspirant, as Joe Goldberg's new obsession.
Joe is a serial killer, stalker and former bookstore manager who, upon meeting Guinevere Beck at his workplace in New York, develops an extreme, toxic and delusional obsession with her.
Joe is a loner bookstore manager who becomes infatuated with a woman named Guinevere Beck and begins to stalk her to find out everything about her and hopefully make her fall in love with him. However, his obsession soon becomes out of control when he starts trying to control every aspect of her life.
Harley Quinn does not have BPD
Mainly in the comics, Harley Quinn is was seen to suffer from visions or fantasies, which could easily be interpreted as psychoses. This is not a trait of BPD but is actually a symptom most commonly associated with Schizophrenia or Schizotypal.
The character of Arthur Fleck is an authentic and well-researched depiction of a man with borderline personality disorder.
Love Quinn
Much like Joe, Love was a serial killer, and her victims included her family's au pair, who had sexually assaulted Love's twin brother Forty when they were children, Candace, Delilah, and Natalie, her neighbor who Joe was becoming obsessed with.
Joe hates men, and he has a history of wanting to protect women. But, of course, he'd prefer a daughter over a son. Also, Joe doesn't want to raise a son to become like him.
Although Rhys is actually a real person in the You-niverse, he's never met Joe. The Rhys Joe's been talking to this entire time is a hallucination, or more accurately, a manifestation of Joe's murderous side. Rhys is Joe.
As Episode 7, "Good Man, Cruel World," came to a close, viewers and Joe discovered that Rhys has been Joe's alter ego the entire time. While Rhys was very much a real person, he and Joe never met until the moments leading up to his death.
Penn Badgley opens up about whether the new season of You is in the talks. In 'You' season 4, it's revealed that Joe has a mental health disorder: erotomania.
1 Anton Chigurh — No Country for Old Men
Of over 120 movie psychopaths observed, psychiatrists have deduced that the most by far realistic portrayal of a psychopath is Javier Bardem's portrayal as the cold and calculating Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men.
In the fourth and latest season, viewers finally learn that a mental health condition is driving Joe's obsessions: erotomania. Erotomania, also known as de Clérambault's Syndrome, is the psychotic belief that one is loved by another person despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, says J.
JOFFREY BARATHEON: THE CLINICAL SOCIOPATH
According to our expert, you were not wrong. Jordan: The clinical term is antisocial personality disorder, and it's not technically diagnosable because he's under 18; personality disorders aren't diagnosed until adulthood.
Joe doses himself with adrenaline during dinner and therefore quickly regains movement. Love dies from the aconite. With her final words, she tells Joe they're perfect for each other, but bad for their son.
Arya struggles with her identity throughout the show until she meets “The Faceless Man” who makes her Schizophrenia even worse. “In order to become someone, a girl needs to become no one,” or in poor Arya's case, everyone.