Is this the ultimate Star Wards’ tabloidesque headline? Comes from great blog from a USA west coast Clearview Women’s Residential Treatment Center for women with emotional dysregulation, including BPD. I’m sure my local NHS trust would be happy to pay a rather large amount of money for me to stay there for a few weeks to get a nice tan, eat lots of niche salads, oh – and get a bit on top of my emotional dysregulation.
Here’s the blog post. (NB. Post has introduced a new symptom of BPD – “illusions of invincibility”. We’re nuts in many many ways, but a fundamental problem is sub-basement self-esteem. It may be referring to our tendency to under-estimate the deathful risks of taking overdoses etc.) The next time you watch “Star Wars,” you may look at Darth Vader in a whole new way. A recent study found that Anakin Skywalker’s turn to the dark side was the result of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). In a study published in the journal Psychiatry Research, French psychologists and psychiatrists determined that Darth Vader had six of the nine criteria used for a BPD diagnosis, as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM):
The study’s authors noted the following about one of cinema’s most notorious villains:
What would have helped Anakin avoid turning into Darth Vader? Therapy, said the study’s researchers. “I believe that psychotherapy would have helped Anakin and might have prevented him from turning to the dark side,” said Eric Bui, a psychiatrist at Toulouse University Hospital. “Using the dark side of the Force could be considered as similar to drug use: it feels really good when you use it, it alters your consciousness and you know you shouldn’t do it.”
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