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Megan Fox and BPD
A little while ago, I wrote a piece on Megan Fox and her statements in an interview that she was considering the possibility that she had a “borderline” personality. I got several reactions that she probably didn’t know what she was talking about or that she was merely emulating/reflecting her “heroine” – Marilyn Monroe. (Fox has a tattoo of Marilyn Monroe on the right forearm).
I read the interview with Fox in “Rolling Stone” this month and found that, if she was being honest in the interview, there is a distinct possibility that she does have BPD. Here are some of the salient points…
In “When Hope is Not Enough,” I point to three features of BPD that I think are common to all people with the disorder. They are: emotional dysregulation, shame and impulsivity. So, let’s start there:
Emotional Dysregulation
Fox: “…But it doesn’t mean I don’t struggle. I am very vulnerable. But I can be aggressive, hurtful, domineering and selfish, too. I’m emotionally unpredictable and all over the place. I’m a control freak. My temper is ridiculously bad. I’ve destroyed my house.”
As a child she had, “panic attacks that manifested themselves as violent, rageful temper tantrums. Like I didn’t know how to control myself or what to do.”
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Shame
Fox: “I’m really insecure about everything. Like what those reporters said about the movie, all I could think was, ‘They’re mocking me… I have a sick feeling of being mocked all the time. I have a lot of self-loathing.”
Impulsivity
Fox: “I go batshit. I’ve had to say to Brian (her boyfriend), ‘You have to go and stop talking to me, because I’m going to kill you. I’m going to stab you with something. Please leave.’ I’d never own a gun for that reason. I wouldn’t shoot to kill. But I’d shoot him in the leg, for sure.”
More evidence…
As a child, she started seeing a therapist because of her real “emotional problems,” but it didn’t seem to help.
She is sensitive about the environment. She can’t sleep with someone touching her. She requires a “cocoon” of pillows to make her feel safe. She can’t sleep in the quiet and dark. She doesn’t like to look in the mirror. She admits to drawing blood during sex, but doesn’t elaborate. She admits to self-injury, but doesn’t elaborate. She hints at an eating disorder, but doesn’t elaborate. She is a “bi-sexual.”
And more. If half of the things in the interview are honest and true, I think Megan Fox may have leaped over my other “celebs with possible BPD (but not for sure)” list.
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Sure she may have Borderline tendencies but so do 90% of people on the planet. As a member of the BPD community I hope she does not have the disorder as dealing with the stigma right now is bad enough so if you add a celebrity who likes to see her name in print as the spokesperson all of the gains made in the last few years will be thrown out the window. It is impossible to diagnose someone with any mental disorder without knowing their complete life history and not what an attention seeking bimbo says in a magazine.
“untreatable,” she doesn’t sound like she’s attention seeking to me. If she had planned all those things she said then she’d have to have studied BPD in depth for quite a while to know formulate those kind of statements which have undertones of BPD. I have been diagnosed with BPD and let me tell you, you go straight to questions like the above about emotions and tendencies and behaviors, and spend LITTLE time on your history. I’ve been reading those interviews with Megan Fox for a while now and I’d bet a fair amount that she’s a Borderline.
I think some celebrities look for excuses to act a certain way, which is damaging and insulting to people who have the illness and find it so disabling.
Meagan Fox is NOT a BPD in my humble opinion but close!
She’s a classic example of the Histrionic Personality Disorder which falls in the Cluster B Personality Disorder spectrum of which BPD is a part.
Women with HPD typically get misbranded a BPD because BPD is the more well known of the two conditions but HPD’s difference is that they tend to be non violent (when female) don’t self injure (as they lean more towards a narcissistic image centric focus as people) and the main aspect of their personalities is being dramatic and the center of attention. They tend not to rage at lover’s unexpectadly like BPD’s rather their anger is turned inwards at themselves if I remember the research correctly.
And they don’t really make their lover’s walk on eggshells fearful of saying this or that like the BPD’s do rather the main way HPD’s victimize people is the old push pull game of the NPD’s…they “love bomb” their targets with incessant praise and make you really feel like a god in their eyes and then when you return the love that they claim they’ve wanted their entire life it flips a switch in their minds that tells them that they both don’t deserve that love and they proceed to lose all feeling for you.
Then you are painted black and you chase them trying to figure out what happened and get your source of (narcissitic) love back.
The dramas they act out with their lovers is similar to how they and BPD’s were both somehow abandoned in childhood by a parental figure not expressing the appropriate empathy from which they could learn it and to become normal human beings.
vaultboy82…very interesting indeed, id be curious to know if you have some type of disorder or are a carer/professional, or maybe just an interested person. i like how you explain things and your views seem slightly but critically different from most in a good way. you make a lot of sense without trying to sound clever
thank you