A recent study found that Anakin Skywalker's turn to the dark side was the result of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
Abstract. Anakin Skywalker, one of the main characters in the "Star Wars" films, meets the criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD).
He's borderline." Carolyn Kaufman, a clinical psychologist in Columbus, Ohio, said the diagnosis holds up in many ways, although Skywalker might also suffer from histrionic personality disorder and bipolar disorder (manic depression).
Permanently afraid of losing his wife, he made frantic efforts to avoid her abandonment and went as far as betraying his former Jedi companions. He also experienced two dissociative episodes secondary to stressful events.
Canon has established that Anakin, while brilliant, has a very flighty attention span and unless it's something that is deeply important to him or made glaringly obvious, his brain has a tendency to skip over it, and makes him less aware. Anakin and HYPERFOCUS: The flip side of ADHD focus issues.
Early in the films, Luke Skywalker suffered from prodromal schizophrenia or adolescent depression, which progressed to auditory hallucinations as he grew into a young Jedi.
Darth Vader suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome, according to the duo. Vader spent most of his childhood as a slave, so he has grown into adult detached from the society, who often projects his own negative feelings onto others.
Apparently, he had borderline personality disorder. As he came of age, Skywalker showed problems with impulsivity, violent outburst, illusions of invincibility and crises of identity, all of which are in line with borderline personality disorder diagnosis, the researchers concluded.
He betrays his closest friend in hopes that, somehow, he can save others. Ultimately, the tragedy found in Anakin's willingness to rebrand himself as Darth Vader is that he betrayed himself. His forfeit of himself surrendered the capability of becoming great without having to concede to the Dark Side.
So, Vader / Skywalker is not schizophrenic, although he might have some mental problems, obviously.
After his ascent to the position of Emperor, Palpatine dropped the charade and everyone saw him for what he was. His psychopathy was also prevalent even prior to becoming a Sith lord, evidenced by his delinquent behavior at an adolescent age, and later his committing manslaughter on two pedestrians via a speeder.
Because Anakin is a deeply sympathetic character, at least in the Clone Wars series. He's literally enslaved during his childhood. He's psychologically abused and manipulated by Palpatine throughout the rest of his adolescence, and no one figures it out.
Yes Anakin was smart for his age, but whether or not he has a Genius IQ of 160 in our world is really kind of indeterminable.
Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader – ENTJ
He's a brilliant, innovative general during the Clone Wars (which is a great series, by the way), and he backs up his Extroverted Thinking with an intuitive process that isn't worried about sticking to Jedi Order tradition.
He had endured much suffering and pain and ultimately had little to no agency in his own life. He then became a tool of machination for others. We all know the story. Anakin is a boy born to a mother with no father on the sand-ridden planet of Tatooine.
Throughout Star Wars, many factors pushed Anakin's descent to the Dark Side, but his attachment to Padme was the biggest cause. The Jedi knew the problems that attachment could cause him, so Anakin kept his relationship a secret from everyone, including his master.
The Younglings Reminded Anakin of How Different He Was
Those negative emotions also power the dark side, meaning Anakin likely felt stronger as he killed the younglings. That, in turn, reinforced his belief that only the dark side could save Padmé.
Over the years since the Youngling massacre, and even sometime before, Darth Vader has regretted killing the Younglings, recognizing that it was the most terrible thing he had ever done.
Anakin does not have even the slightest bit of remorse. By the end, he feels nothing but anger. Although he feels regret for killing Padme, he still helps the evil Emperor. The film ends with Anakins standing side by side with the man on whose behalf he has committed all his crimes.
130–150 would be around the range which I would estimate his IQ to be.
During the Imperial Era, a human female nurse served the Galactic Empire on board the Death Star under the supervision of a doctor. They both served the Sith Lord Darth Vader as his personal medical caretakers. The nurse became obsessed and psychotically in love with the Dark Lord of the Sith.
Darth Vader is the product of Anakin's trauma and poor life decisions, which makes him the wiser, stronger half of the one-man duo when he returns in Episodes 4-6.
Carolyn Kaufman, clinical psychologist in Columbus, Ohio, added that Anakin also suffered from histrionic personality disorder and bipolar disorder, the latter characterized by intense mood swings, with Anakin displaying symptoms of both depression and mania (this one often displayed as irritability rather than the ...
Obi-Wan got a total score of 54. According to the scoring guide, that makes him PTSD positive. This also feels right. The events of Revenge of the Sith were highly traumatic.
Even after his brutal scorching in the fires of Mustafar, sand remained the only natural phenomenon that Vader feared. To him, sand was a reminder that he'd failed to save his mother or Padme from death.