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Amy Winehouse and BPD
One of my twitter followers posted the original Daily Star article about Amy Winehouse and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Of course, I’d had Amy on my Celebrities with Possible BPD list for many years. If you want to read all of my articles about Amy Winehouse click here. I have no idea why the title includes ‘Mental Illness’ in quotes. Maybe it was because they were quoting the relative or maybe it brings up the question as to whether BPD is an actual mental illness. Here is the text of the article (and my comments below): TRAGIC AMY WINEHOUSE HAD ‘MENTAL ILLNESS’ TROUBLED Amy Winehouse suffered from an undiagnosed mental…
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Article about teen eating disorders and suicidal thoughts
Article showing that teens with eating disorders have more suicidal thoughts: Teens with eating disorders more likely to harbor thoughts of suicide, study finds By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times 7:21 AM PST, March 8, 2011 Teens suffering from anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders are more likely to suffer from suicidal thoughts, anxiety disorders and substance abuse — but how much they suffer may depend on the type of eating disorder they have. That’s according to an analysis published online Monday in the Archives of General Psychiatry that, with 10,123 adolescents surveyed, is the largest and most comprehensive study of eating disorders in teens in the United States. About…
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Literally Starving Yourself to Death
An article that came across the wire about BPD and eating disorders: Body of anorexic woman lay undiscovered in flat for up to two weeks Weight obsession blamed for death THE body of a 31-year-old anorexic woman lay undiscovered in her flat for up to 13 days, because care workers and relatives thought she was on holiday in Egypt. Annette Rogers, who weighed just 7st 4lb and had a body mass index (BMI) of 16.4 – the healthy range being 18.5 to 24.9 – had packed her bags to leave on June 18, 2009. But she never left her Hanley flat and her body was discovered on June 29. It…
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Courtney Love’s BPD-meter now getting in the red zone
It’s been a while since I wrote a post about a celebrity with possible BPD. To see past posts about celebrities with BPD (possible but not for sure) click here. I saw a picture a few days ago of Courtney Love. Geez, someone give the girl a pound cake and make sure she eats it. While Courtney herself says it’s the financial stress, it sure looks a lot like an eating disorder. Here is an article about it… Yikes! Skinny Courtney Love looks anorexic; weight loss sparks concern over frail framed star DAILY NEWS STAFF Updated Wednesday, June 24th 2009, 1:22 PM What happened to Courtney Love? The former Hole…
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Princess Di and BPD
Princess Di's biography says that she probably did have Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).