Comments on: Celebrities with Borderline Personality Disorder (possibly, not for sure)

By: Borderline Personality « Psychiatry in the Mainstream

Borderline Personality « Psychiatry in the Mainstream — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:04:05 +0000

[...] Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and Uma Thurman in My Super Ex-Girlfriend to name a few. Even celebrities themselves have been associated with the disorder- Angelina Jolie, Megan Fox, Lyndsey Lohan, Amy [...]

By: olenea77

olenea77 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:36:24 +0000

Some people said Tyson should be on the list, but I think Tyson is more of Narcisstic dissorder

By: Calen Curtis

Calen Curtis — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:47:04 +0000

New topic of discussion…. What of disorders among historical celebs? Hasn’t Shakesphere sexuality been questioned? Or what of Edgar Alan Poe’s writing, very dark and delusional maybe? Hell, look at Van Gogh…. Creativity, Genius these descriptives are often related to the crazy celebs no matter the generation… I honestly think that the media plays a major part in our view of these “BPD Celebs” if the media would have been as persistent, as aggressive as they are now to the historical figures we may not have had the art and literature we have today… If Miltons Paradise Lost would have been written in 2009 it wouldn’t have been considered the last great epic, hell it may not have even NYT best seller list because our global society as a whole is to lazy and ignorant to read something like that…. Anyway i’m a 23 year old kid from mississippi who doesnt know a damn thing about anything but growing pine tree farms, lazt right?

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By: mark

mark — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:31:00 +0000

bon bon,

should i reallly buy your book?

anyways, I’m curious what it is about BPD that usually makes us such under achievers. I mean the lists of historical figures and celebrated geniuses with bipolar is about 20 ft long. Is it the confusion with long term goals? I have, I guess like everyone else, the desire to be extraordinary. But I sabatoge myself at every corner. I get great oppertunities and then mess them up. Is this common?

thanks

markus

By: paul

paul — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:55:34 +0000

Tyson for sure. I have borderline traits now(would have been BPD at a younger age) and Tyson is for me classic. I recognise so much of myself in him and him in me it is bizarre. Others have thought i was bipolar too but only becasue that is better known.

By: Bon Dobbs

Bon Dobbs — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:38:44 +0000

Thanks for the advice and for buying my book. I do get a lot of traffic from the celebrity discussion. I am always hopeful that I can help at least one person through that avenue – actually I have helped one that I know of. Perhaps it is best to not post the celeb stuff, but if it helps one person – cool. I posted some stuff on Megan Fox based on her own words. I don’t do much of the celebrity posting. Most of what I do is more support-oriented (at least I hope so).

Anyway, thanks for stopping by and for the comment. I think you’ll enjoy the book. I wonder how it will compare to the 3 others you bought?

By: A borderline ;-)

A borderline ;-) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:25:18 +0000

Bon,
I did not realize this was your site until I thoroughly read through the postings.
I actually bought your book today from Amazon, before I even knew you had a site (I stumbled across your site looking for more info on BPD on Internet, until my books from Amazon arrive I am looking for more info on the web ).
I am trying to say that posting about celebrity borderlines is not necessarity to generate traffic to your site, because if someone is really interested in the issue, they are likely to do the reserach, go to Amazon and see you book, and your book has pretty good reviews. There about 20 – 25 books on Amazon on the topic; I bought four, and your is one of them And if someone is not intersted, it’s unlikely they are ever going to type “borderline” in the text field of google…
It is certainly very pleasant to realize that there are many people affected by the disorder, including those people we sometimes look at with admiration. But Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana are probably more solid examples to stick to, IMHO
P.S. I hope your book will be helpful!

By: A borderline ;-)

A borderline ;-) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:12:35 +0000

Any of the famous people listed on this page may very well have the borderline personality disorder.

However, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th. Edition, better known as the DSM-IV, the manual published by the American Psychiatric Association, lists nine criteria, and five of those nine must be present for someone to be diagnosed with the BPD. In addition, there are three more characteristics that are very distinct for the BPD and differentiate it from all other psychological diagnoses.

The people on the list above exhibit symptoms that may be indicative of a whole range of psichiatric/psychological problems; we would not know, because to account for all the five symptoms and specifically for the ones that clearly distinguish BPD from other disorders, one would actually need to hear from those people first hand if they have these kinds of feelings and sufferings; those symptoms are not define from behavior, they are defined from how the person feels inside.
Among those distinguishing BPD from other disorders are a sharp, almost unbearable fear of real or imagined abandonment, extereme emotional sensitivity (One researcher (Marsha Linehan) said, “People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.”). There is a whole range of other symptoms that can only be revealed if a person themselves admits that they have them.

While it is soothing to think that I am not the only cookoo out there, the people listed above as suspects of BPD may actually be ill with something completely different

By: breakthehabit

breakthehabit — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:37:13 +0000

Eminem should be on this list.