Abstract. Anakin Skywalker, one of the main characters in the "Star Wars" films, meets the criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD).
A recent study found that Anakin Skywalker's turn to the dark side was the result of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
According to the authors, who reported their findings at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in San Diego, Skywalker meets the criteria for the condition: He has difficulty controlling anger, stress-related breaks with reality (after women in his life die or leave), impulsivity (dangerous pod racing), ...
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.
Some assert that Anakin had narcissistic personality disorder, while others posit, he had bipolar personality disorder, contradicting to each other; some assert he had borderline personality disorder, while others are challenging these claims; some assert he had PTSD while others doesn't even consider it.
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 ...
Anakin Skywalker (Vader) has PTSD and BPD
Symptoms include 'disassociating' yourself from others or vivid flashbacks of what caused the person's trauma. Let's not forget the fact that Anakin was a slave as a child, which is the biggest trauma that could have triggered PTSD for him.
So, Vader / Skywalker is not schizophrenic, although he might have some mental problems, obviously.
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.
Padmé Amidala – ENFJ
Diplomacy is one of the greatest strengths of an NF type personality, and we see that clearly in ENFJ Padmé Amidala Naberrie. One of the defining aspects of her character is her constant insistence on trying to find peaceful, mutually beneficial resolutions to conflicts.
One of the most notable examples of a psychopath was Palpatine who, in reality, was the Sith Lord Darth Sidious. He displayed superficial charm, hiding behind the guise of a kind, mild-mannered Senator from Naboo and maintaining this demeanor as Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic.
In addition to his self-centered and manipulative nature, Palpatine exhibits psychopathy: the inability of a person to properly feel emotion. Throughout the Star Wars franchise, the Emperor feels no empathy for anyone.
At least partially, Padmé is experiencing a kind of Stockholm Syndrome or more specifically, the idea of equating affection with crime, a disorder known as hybristophilia.
While his love for Padmé was genuine (however dangerous), the need to keep the romance a secret enhanced his disdain for society. When he says on Mustafar that “from my point of view, the Jedi are evil”, that's Anakin showing his true colours as a sociopath. It was the Jedi Order who took him away from his mother.
The Jedi Council's Rules on Attachments
The choice to leave his mother at a young age continues to haunt Anakin throughout his life. He is plagued by nightmares of her and visions of her fate. When he eventually saves her from a group of Tuskens on Tatooine, his blind anger at her dying state consumes him.
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.
Does Darth Vader have a penis? He managed to knock up Padme, so he had a penis at some point. The moment where his penis may have been severed was during his duel with Obi Wan on Mustafar. We saw him lose his left arm and both legs, but it does not seem that he was de-penised as well.
Inside his suit and mask, Vader has a series of needles in his skin. Unfortunately, these needles, which transmit neurological data throughout his body and allow him to control his limbs, also cause him constant pain.
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.
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.
The canonical comic Star Wars: Darth Vader #7 confirms the younglings' deaths caused Anakin grief, self-loathing, hatred and pain, fueling his descent even further into the dark side. Those negative emotions also power the dark side, meaning Anakin likely felt stronger as he killed the younglings.
“The tear [on Anakin's face] says that he knows what he's done, but he has now committed himself to a path that he may not agree with… but he is going to go on anyway. It's the one moment that says he's self-aware that he's rationalizing all his behavior.
His unbalanced rage allows the calmer Ventress to play with the Jedi Knight, ultimately landing a face blow with her saber that produces Anakin's scar. The pain of the scar, while not posing much of a threat to Anakin, does reveal how far to the Dark Side he is slipping.