Anakin Skywalker, also known as the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader, has a “borderline personality” described as “a prolonged disturbance of personality function in a person (generally over the age of eighteen years, although it is also found in adolescents), characterized by depth and variability of moods.” So sayeth a group of French psychologists who studied the Star Wars villain and found that he suffered from severe mental illness.
According to the study which will soon be published in the journal Psychiatry Research, Darth Vader was examined per the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSMV IV). Of the nine borderline personality disorder criteria, Anakin/Vader fulfilled six of them. Five are required by the DSMV IV to be diagnosed as suffering from the disorder.
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For instance, the future Darth Vader showed both impulsivity and anger management issues
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