Renee Good: A Classic Example of Borderline Personality Disorder

Sometimes, when you look at the behaviour of extreme left-wing women, you are left in stunned silence. What would possess them to film themselves shaving their hair off because of the death of a black criminal in Minneapolis? Why would they mass-prostrate themselves on the ground, as they did in Lahti in Finland over the same issue? And, now look at the reaction to the shooting of Renee Nicole Good in the same city on 7^th January. What explains their symbolic self-harm, their attention-seeking and their risk-taking? It really isn’t that complicated. What we are seeing, and this is particularly obvious in Renee Good herself, is Borderline Personality Disorder.

This disorder is marked by (1) A fundamental fear of abandonment and (2) A chronic sense of emptiness, and we know that about half of far-left women under the age of 30 have been diagnosed with some kind of mental illness, such as depression. This is dealt with by the borderline with: (3) Difficulties controlling anger, and often paranoid about being abandoned; (4) Intense mood swings, as she reassures herself she won’t be abandoned but then fears she might be, so she can oscillate between Narcissism (a kind of psychosis) and a Neuroticism—hence she is “borderline” between the two; (5) Highly impulsive behaviour, such as sexual abandon or drug use, as a way of escaping these unbearable feelings.

Other symptoms: (6) Self-harm or suicide signalling, as a means of getting attention or being in control of a sense of pain; (7) Relationships marked by cycles of idealising someone and then, because their potentially leaving makes them paranoid, de-idealising them as evil; (8) Borderline psychosis, where they degenerate into paranoid psychosis under intense stress which forces the “bad” people to withdraw, and periods of dissociation; (9) Identity disturbance: As they are plagued by self-doubt, they can never develop a clear sense of who they are. They will, thus, be different people with different people, mirroring them in order to bond with them, and they will swing between completely different identities.

In all of the online discussion of Renee Good, I am surprised that nobody has commented on her identity disturbance at all. When Renee was 18, in 2006, she was a mission worker at the First Presbyterian Church in Saintfield in Northern Ireland. This was presumably connected to a church of the same denomination in Colorado Springs where Renee Granger, as she then was, was brought up. From what I can work out this is a theologically and socially conservative church; it promotes conservative religious dogmas.

Yet Renee has managed to flip over to exactly the opposite worldview. At the time of her death, her six-year-old son attended a constitutionally Woke nursery school and she was evidently involved in anti-ICE activism. In other words, she was so fervently left-wing that she spent her time preventing ICE from carrying out federal law on immigration. She was also, by the stage, a lesbian who had married a fellow Woke activist called Rebecca Good, who was encouraging Renee to use her car to block ICE agents from carrying out their work just before she was shot.

In 2020, while Renee was studying Creative Writing at Old Dominion University, she wrote an (award winning) poem repudiating her former self entitled “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs”: “i’ve donated bibles to thrift stores/ (mashed them in plastic trash bags with an acidic himalayan salt lamp—/ the post-baptism bibles, the ones plucked from street corners from the meaty hands of zealots, the dumbed-down, easy-to-read, parasitic kind):/ . . .   now i can’t believe— that the bible and qur’an and bhagavad gita are sliding long hairs behind my ear like mom used to & exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”—/ all my understanding dribbles down the chin onto the chest & is summarized as:/ life is merely/ to ovum and sperm . . .”

Put simply, she’s now a fervent atheist; the opposite of what she once was. However, the underlying psychology of highly fervent Christians and the Woke has been found to be similar. They are high in Neuroticism, so cleave to clear and self-esteem boosting ways of seeing the world. Converts, in particular, are high in negative feelings; hence they break down and adopt a radically a new identity, plagued with doubt about the earlier one.

We can see in Renee’s behaviour leading up to her being shot that she has problems controlling anger and acts impulsively and recklessly, as manifest in her blocking the road and then attacking the ICE agent with her car. The couple suddenly moved to Canada when Trump was elected in 2024 but then very quickly returned to the US. It is noteworthy that despite being born in 1988, Renee did not graduate from university until 2020. This is consistent with being a wanderer who does not know what to do with life, which, in turn, potentially implies chronic emptiness and identity disturbance. At the very least, she’s been a dental assistant, worked for Credit Union and been long-term unemployed.

One also wonders why Renee’s 15-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son live with their father, who has declined to give his name. She was widowed by her second husband, Timothy Ray Macklin, in 2023 and their son lives with Renee and Rebecca. It is very rare for a court to grant custody to the father, implying, at the very least, that the father was able to offer the children a rather more stable upbringing. At a stretch, Renee’s behaviour towards the ICE officer, in driving her car towards him, could be seen as a dramatic act of self-harm. She probably did not expect to be shot dead but she may have anticipated being shot at and, possibly, hit. This would allow her to reassure herself of her own importance and moral superiority and, thus, boost her frail sense of identity.

But even if this is a step too far, it is hard to believe that she didn’t realise that she was risking her life—and potentially risking making her sixyear-old son an orphan—by behaving as she did with armed ICE officers who were already stressed out due to her protest. What she did makes sense if we realise that she suffered from the same personality disorder—the same mental disturbance—that seems to be so common among women on the far left: Borderline Personality Disorder, a condition which is about 50% genetic and is partly induced by a chaotic and neglectful childhood. Such women—and around 75% of sufferers are women, according to some sources—swing between such extreme emotions, and identities, that they sometimes have trouble seeing themselves as a single person. “The woman who cut herself in a state of neurosis is not me,” they think, when in a more Narcissistic state, “because I wouldn’t do that.” For this reason, for borderlines, life sometimes doesn’t seem real. But, alas, it will be very real for the orphaned little boy whom Renee has left behind.