Loading ...Celebrities with Borderline Personality Disorder (possibly, not for sure)
Here are my top-five candidates for celebrities with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Remember I am not a doctor and this is a “arm chair” analysis of the documented behaviors of each of these celebrities. Others considered for the list were: Kurt Cobain, Princess Di, Heather Mills, Christina Ricci, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Pete Doherty, Winona Ryder, Mindy McCready and OJ Simpson. But here are my top five BPD celebrities (from least to most likely to have the disorder) and some links to illustrative articles on the web… drum roll please….
5. Angelina Jolie (if you want a more detailed analysis of Angeline Jolie go here)
4. Courtney Love (to see all of the posts on Courtney Love go here)
3. Lindsey Lohan (Here is some more info on Lindsay Lohan go here)
2. Britney Spears (more on Britney try this link)
1. Amy Winehouse (for more on Amy Winehouse try this)
- Self-Injury.
- Substance Abuse.
- Volatile relationships.
- Sexual Confusion.
- Eating Disorder.
- Implusive Behavior.
- Shame.
- Suicidal.
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I agree, to a certain extent that these celebrities have personalitiy traites that are exhibited. However there is a place personality disordered people in life, and I believe these traits in western life. There is little recognition of personality disorder in the Eastern community……how is this?
When a person has one personality disorder, it can generally be crossed to three…
BPD is usually alone, but when you get a male BPD then usually see PDN and NPD and is difficult to recognise. They usually come the notice of society via A&E and the Police service. Look at the city, you’ll find them there, and with the current credit crunch, I bet that there will be quiet a few disordered reactions.
I don’t think any of these celebrities have borderline. They do have some traits but it is very hard to diagnose. To me they just seem typical celebrities put under the strain of fame. it cant be easy to handle
Laura
Laura,
There are two reasons that I post information on possible BPD in certain celebs. One is that there is no good spokesperson for BPD in the media. I wish there was. I wish, if someone actually HAS BPD, that he or she would come out and say it to help remove the stigma from the disorder. The other reason is selfish of me. I get far more traffic to my blog on BPD celebrities than any thing else. That’s unfortunate, but true. I am always hoping that, if a reader gets to the celebrity thing, they might stick around and read some of the other more substantive posts – or even buy my book, which has already helped hundreds of loved ones of people with BPD.
Thanks for the comment.
Bon
BPD is somewhat predictive of behavior.
So my question is – Why is Angelina chatting up how she and her current partner met and fell in love, contradicting earlier statements about how she would never be involved with a married man etc, etc- her remarks seem to reveal that she and her partner have been lying and designed to humiliate her partners ex wife.
This behavior seems to indicate that she has an active mean streak.
Any thoughts?
SS
It can be predictive of behavior. That’s why many behavioral-based therapies can work effectively – like DBT and SFT. She probably has a “mean streak” that is rooted in black-and-white thinking. If someone is against her, they are her enemy and she will say/do things to humiliate them. People with BPD can “burn bridges” too. I’ve seen my wife send emails to life-long friends that destroy the relationship – mean, nasty, personal messages. This usually happens when she thinks that someone is judging her or touching on her shame. Later, she might regret it… but it’s done at that point – which can lead to more shame. As for Angelina, I’m not sure she has BPD, but she definitely shows the signs. That being said, she seems to have found in her children and in her “causes” something to distract her from self-destructive behavior. Her behavior has definitely improved, so maybe (even with the vestiges that you mention) she is a success story (if you don’t believe everything you read in line at the supermarket).
Thanks for the comment. I hadn’t really thought about that in that way.
Bon
Being a personal sufferer of Borderline Personality Disorder, I can make a personal opinion that I see Britney Spears & Angelina Jolie having the exact same traits as myself.
Sally, BPD is a very complex mental illness. Many sufferers tend to mold themselves to whom ever is surrounding them, have a diffucult time understanding their own needs since they feel as if they don’t have a personal identity. Maybe she said she wouldn’t be involved with a married man, but the fear of abandoment can be so overwhelming you sometimes do things you wouldn’t dream of to lessent the feeling of lonliness and abandonment.
And Laura, just becasue they are celerities and have stressful jobs does not make them immune to BPD. There are 2-3% of the population suffering with it, and the illness does not discriminate, whether you are famous or a regular Joe.
Not too sure if any of these celebrities have borderline personality disorder, plus where is russell crowe and nikki reed? This list should include both these people and neither angelina jolie or lindsey lohan have bpd. Amy Whinehouse could possibly but most likely she suffers from bipolar disorder, also where is mike tyson, iron mike should be here more likely than any of these other names listed. Russell crowe shows intensive thoughts and rapid thoughts as well as lack of emotion and alcohol abuse as well as extreme agitation leading to agression, so if you compare russell to angelina jolie whats the diffference they are both creative however angelina shows no lack of emotion or agitation.
Hi there,
I am not really sure where to start…I found this page in search of answers for myself and started reading the messages. I have been diagnosed in the past with ADD but never really consulted anyone officially for my depression but was given antidepressants by my docs for years. Started on Prozac then most recently Zoloft. My latest attempt o to “get pure” and get off my meds has been the longest attempt yet and I am feeling AWFUL. I have felt “different” and experienced mutiple symptoms of “something” (still seeking what it is!) and been in and out of depression since I was 13 and now am 28. I thought that maybe I was Bipolar but I cycle between happy to sad and nice to mean WAY TOO QUICKLY to be that. I am on a quest to put a name to this extremeness I have so I can, with therapy for issues, get to the bottom of this and get my life together. Can anyone help or share symptoms they have or do I sound like one of you?
Lauren,
I am not a Dr. or a clinician so I can’t comment on your diagnosis. You may have some form of bipolar or something else. I just can’t comment. As for BPD, it really should be called ERD (emotional regulation disorder) or ERID (emotional regulation and impulsivity disorder). Are you impulsive? Do you self-injure? Do you have shame issues? In my book, I discuss the 3 “core” things I have seen in people with BPD – emotional dsyregulation, impulsiveness and shame. If you have these things, it very well could be BPD. The problem with the diagnosis is the stigma associated with it. That just adds to shame. Go to a qualified and knowledgeable mental health professional and be honest about your symptoms and behavior – as hard as it can be. You might suggest some diagnosis that your have done research on and tell him/her you feel that way all of the time. DON’T believe anyone who says it is untreatable or unmanageable. Good luck and I hope you feel better soon!
Bon
I like didnt know like Angelina Jolie like had borderline….OMG!! She is like my idol….well kinda….except for like the bad stuff she like does….but like she is my idol because she like is on good like movies and likeshe saves the little children from poverty….poor little black babies…..i would help like make them look all pretty and stuff so it would help their self esteem….i wouldnt adopt them though….because i only want blonde babies….if i had a kid and they like didnt like have blonde hair, i would like freak….and like leave with the blonde kids i have…..and leave that other hair colored kid with the father…..because like i think that blondes are like the best…..but still like i really like didnt know she had that….its like so frickin crazy it is like to like funny to like function….i mean like what would you like do if like you had that…..that is like so not good….i wouldnt trust anyone with like a disorder with my kids or even like myself….like what like ever…..lol…i think that all blonde haired blue eyed people are the best!!! GO LIKE BLONDE AND BLUE EYED CHICKS AND DUDES!!!
Like, are you, like, joking with me much?
New lingo?
Is this written in English language?
“I like didnt know like Angelina Jolie like had borderline….OMG!! She is like my idol….well kinda….except for like the bad stuff she like does….but like she is my idol because she like is on good like movies and likeshe saves the little children from poverty….poor little black babies…..i would help like make them look all pretty and stuff so it would help their self esteem….i wouldnt adopt them though….because i only want blonde babies….if i had a kid and they like didnt like have blonde hair, i would like freak….and like leave with the blonde kids i have…..and leave that other hair colored kid with the father…..because like i think that blondes are like the best…..but still like i really like didnt know she had that….its like so frickin crazy it is like to like funny to like function….i mean like what would you like do if like you had that…..that is like so not good….i wouldnt trust anyone with like a disorder with my kids or even like myself….like what like ever…..lol…i think that all blonde haired blue eyed people are the best!!! GO LIKE BLONDE AND BLUE EYED CHICKS AND DUDES!!!
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on 09 Mar 2009 at 10:15 am15Bon Dobbs
Like, are you, like, joking with me much?”
A fantastic resource that explain BPD in laymans terms that are easy to understand is One Way Ticket To Kansas by Ozzie Tinman. This book is one of the best out there and also delves into why as partners, people get involved int he tangled and unstable releationship with someone with BPD.
Jan
Jan,
I have read that book and, while it does have some good points about the nature of the relationship, I felt it should have been called “One Way Ticket to Kansas FOR ONE” because his prescription is ultimately “I left the crazy b*tch.” Have you read my book?
Bon
Fed up,
“A 2008 study of nearly 35,000 adults in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry found that 5.9%–which would translate into 18 million Americans–had been given a BPD diagnosis. As recently as 2000, the American Psychiatric Association believed that only 2% had BPD. (In contrast, clinicians diagnose bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in about 1% of the population.) BPD has long been regarded as an illness disproportionately affecting women, but the latest research shows no difference in prevalence rates for men and women.”
” Prevalence, correlates, disability, and comorbidity of DSM-IV borderline personality disorder: results from the Wave 2 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions.
Grant BF, Chou SP, Goldstein RB, Huang B, Stinson FS, Saha TD, Smith SM, Dawson DA, Pulay AJ, Pickering RP, Ruan WJ.
Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biometry, Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-9304, USA. bgrant@willco.niaaa.nih.gov
OBJECTIVES: To present nationally representative findings on prevalence, sociodemographic correlates, disability, and comorbidity of borderline personality disorder (BPD) among men and women. METHOD: Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 34,653 adults participating in the 2004-2005 Wave 2 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. Personality disorder diagnoses were made using the Wave 2 Alcohol Use Disorder and Associated Disabilities Interview Schedule-DSM-IV Version. RESULTS: Prevalence of lifetime BPD was 5.9% (99% CI = 5.4 to 6.4). There were no differences in the rates of BPD among men (5.6%, 99% CI = 5.0 to 6.2) and women (6.2%, 99% CI = 5.6 to 6.9). BPD was more prevalent among Native American men, younger and separated/divorced/widowed adults, and those with lower incomes and education and was less prevalent among Hispanic men and women and Asian women. BPD was associated with substantial mental and physical disability, especially among women. High co-occurrence rates of mood and anxiety disorders with BPD were similar. With additional comorbidity controlled for, associations with bipolar disorder and schizotypal and narcissistic personality disorders remained strong and significant (odds ratios > or = 4.3). Associations of BPD with other specific disorders were no longer significant or were considerably weakened. CONCLUSIONS: BPD is much more prevalent in the general population than previously recognized, is equally prevalent among men and women, and is associated with considerable mental and physical disability, especially among women. Unique and common factors may differentially contribute to disorder-specific comorbidity with BPD, and some of these associations appear to be sex-specific. There is a need for future epidemiologic, clinical, and genetically informed studies to identify unique and common factors that underlie disorder-specific comorbidity with BPD. Important sex differences observed in rates of BPD and associations with BPD can inform more focused, hypothesis-driven investigations of these factors.”
I’ve done my homework. I do it all the time. As you can see in a 2008 study, researchers found BPD diagnosable traits in 5.9% of the population.
And no, I don’t have BPD. My wife and one of my daughters have BPD/ERD issues. I just don’t like it when some sanctimonious person (with a handle like “fed up”) comes here and perpetuates the very myths that I have tried to battle for almost four years now.
Oh course I will post it. I’m glad you have overcome your disorder – that’s fantastic. What I have done is met with hundreds of people – parents, friends, partners and children – of people with BPD. There is a lot of pain all around in that group (as well as in the group of people with the disorder). I will freely admit that I do use celebrities to drive traffic to my site. It is a marketing tool, yes. I find it repellent in some ways that 60% of the searches that find my blog are regarding celebrities. My intention by doing this is to help people learn how to communicate with someone with BPD. I have implemented these skills in my life and they are helpful in emotional situations.
The “survey” to which you refer was done by researchers, not me. These are mental health researchers with a grant from the NIH.
You haven’t read much of my blog other than the celebrities page, I suspect. I never said that people with cluster B traits are not dangerous or (sometimes) sociopaths.
I am interested why you are so angry with my work, writing and thinking about BPD. It just seems weird. It would seem that a person that had experienced all you have experienced might be less judgmental about other people with a mental disorder.
Actually, repellent is probably not the right word – banal is better. I find the banality of people searching on the Internet to be astounding.
Well, you can say what you want – especially when you are angry, which you seem to be. I haven’t said F* this and such, as you have to me. My wife and daughter went through treatment with one of the foremost experts in BPD and were diagnosed with the disorder by him. You know very little about me or about my family. I personally find it a bit disturbing that you would make statements about my family when you just told ME to take responsibility.
As for your abuse, that’s horrible. My wife was sexually abused as a child – my daughter was not. But my daughter was and continues to be invalidated by her teachers and others – not so much by me and my wife anymore, since we have learned the facility of emotional validation.
If you understand BPD as well as you do, that’s great and I will defer to your expertise. At the same time, I also have a deep knowledge of BPD, go weekly to psychoeducational session and literally just got off the phone with a knowledgeable person about BPD.
I am fighting stigma. My book (the “lark” as you have called it) has helped hundreds of people create a more peaceful and compassionate environment with their loved ones with BPD.
see, I come around, I see that your not all bad now, but for just a “while” i was thinking that you were the “enemy” and trying to hurt me and others…I was having my lunch up at the mental health clinic, and I was thinking about this and was getting quite upset but now that you have said what you have, especially about your wife, it changes “everything”…and ironically, I feel more of a brethren with you.
I have come along ways, i couldn’t snap out of this before, you have done some really ‘great” things…You don’t know how much, I want your wife, your child and “you” to feel good, I am so sorry that, you and your family are being subjected to this adversity…I am very, very proud of your wife.
It takes strong character for her, to get help and it takes strong character for you to be so helpful and do what you have done, not only for her, but for so many
I totally respect you now..
How is that for a shift???…lolol….
Yes, lol. I certainly don’t want anyone as an enemy – and I do welcome dissent and disagreement. Over at WTO (Welcome to Oz) they accused me of running a “cult” because I was saying people with BPD are afflicted and suffering… even as we all suffer from their behaviors. When I go to my weekly psycho-education course (which I assist in teaching), I see a LOT of suffering, especially among the parents of children with BPD. They are racked with guilt and even the therapists blame them for their child’s disorder. I think this is counter-productive to working on a more peaceful and effective future.
I am glad that you have overcome your disorder in so many ways, and I know it must have been really hard work to do so. Many people just give up, feel broken , steep in shame and/or kill themselves. I think that is so sad to see people suffer in silence.
Good luck to you and I have respect for you and what you have been able to overcome/accomplish in your life.
I’m glad we’re “good” now.
One more thing I forgot to mention. I am proud of my wife too… yet, what is more important for her sense of mastery over her own life is that she is proud of herself. She’s in a pretty effective and positive place right now – and that makes me feel good for her. My daughter actually graduated from her emotional skills/DBT therapy last month. She has mastered the skills they taught her and there’s nothing more for her to learn. She just has to apply the skills in her life. It appears that you have done something similar in your life and that warms my heart. I like when people feel confident and effective in their own lives, especially when they have had to overcome so much adversity.
Good luck! Feel free to check in with me, if you want. And yes, the celebrity thing is just a device to draw traffic. What I found was that when I posted a message about Britney Spears, my traffic doubled. I wish some celebrity would come out and say “I have BPD” – like Ben Stiller and others have about bipolar. It would help and normalize the disorder.
Bon
I forgot to say that my friend who i originally dated, she does have BPD and we love each other, we broke up and I ‘insisted” that we stay friends and that was
7 years ago now..
and she is fairly severe and low functioning but, she said to me not long ago
you have taught me how to trust someone and that really touched me in a way that I can’t explain, with mere words and I saw that all of the abuse, I went threw with her, was “worth it” I learned so, so much from her, she is like family to me and I don’t mean to put any stigma on anyone, i didn’t mean to sound like that if i did and give people with BPD a chance that is what, i really mean…
I have had ‘two” long term friends with BPD…
me again, i didn’t see your whole website and i am feeling bad now!…I thought this was it, just the silly Hollywood thing and that is what tripped me…I understand this web page now as well, quite clever if i do say myself I hope you sell “millions” of copies, I am quite broke but, i will consider even getting a copy myself…If you can delete my other postings, it would be appreciated, I am serious get rid of my rants…I googled O J Simpson and BPD and got this web page!…lololol….Holy geeezus was I out in left field…yikes sorry, i am with you…and thank you!!!…God, I say the stigma is the most “brutal” symptom that we have to battle and the rest is easy…I am serious, that is my motto…
No problem. I deleted your angry comments and some of my responses. “Bon chance!” – haha. I’d love to sell millions too – lol. I have sold hundreds and have gotten some very positive responses. It’s nice to help someone now and then.
Stay in touch!
To anyone, who hasn’t read Bon Dobb’s book, I HIGHLY recommend this book, i have just read the first 50 pages and it is one of the best reads on BPD/mental illness that, I have ever read. For the first time, the person with BPD is looked upon as someone with a major form of mental illness not, a personality disorder. The people I know, with BPD have very similar symptoms, to me and I have Bipolar disorder. His book goes beyond the diagnosis and gets one to see that, BPD is just that, a “diagnosis” not an identity…I would recommend this book to “anyone” all mental illness is relative, therefore, anyone could benefit from this very informative book. I like the introduction stating that the book will help you deal with people who, demonstrate Borderline traits but, don’t necessarily meet the full criteria of BPD…I also strongly encourage everyone, to visit this site in its entirety and not to just view the Hollywood, aspect of it…
On the lighter side. I think all of Hollywood is utterly “insane”
I mean how about Tom Cruise???…Geeeezus that guy!..what a CREEP!…lol..
Thanks for the plug! And BTW, Tom Cruise is creepy.