Biomarkers, early events, symptoms, and traits |
BPD vs. BD |
Anakin Skywalker |
Disorder recommendation |
Childhood (8 years old) |
Youth (18 to 22 years old) |
Adulthood (46 years old) |
Biomarkers (Phelps, 2014Phelps, J. (2014, September 15). Bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder: what’s the difference? PsychEducation.org.https://psycheducation.org/diagnosis/bipolar-disorder-and-borderline-personality-disorder/#Overlap_between_diagnostic_criteria https://psycheducation.org/diagnosis/bip...
) |
None |
High levels of Midi-chloriansa
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None |
Early life stressb (Leibenluft, 2014Leibenluft, E. (2014). Categories and dimensions, brain and behavior: the yins and yangs of psychopathology. JAMA Psychiatry, 71(1), 15-17. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.2810 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1001/...
) |
BPD > BD |
Slave; abandons his mother; orphaned of a father |
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BPD |
Emotional lability |
BPD ~ BD |
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Love-hate relationship with his wife and with his mentor (epi. III) |
Love-hate relationship with his son and with the Emperor (epi. VI) |
BPD/BD |
Impulsiveness |
BPD > BD |
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Hidden and hasty marriage (epi. II) |
Tells his son that he is his father and attacks him (supposedly, killing him) (epi. V) |
BPD |
Aggressiveness/hostility |
BPD > BD |
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Kills all Tusken Raiders (epi. II) and all the Jedi placed in the Jedi library (epi. III) |
Kills those who are under his command when expectations are not met (epi. IV, V) |
BPD |
Harm avoidance (De la Rosa et al., 2017De la Rosa, I., Oquendo, M. A., García, G., Stanley, B., González-Pinto, A., Liu, S. M., & Blanco, C. (2017). Determining if borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder are alternative expressions of the same disorder: results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 78(8), 994-999. https://doi.org/10.4088/JCP.16m11190 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4088/...
; Phillips & Kupfer, 2013Phillips, M. L., & Kupfer, D. J. (2013). Bipolar disorder diagnosis: challenges and future directions. Lancet, 381(9878), 1663-1671. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60989-7 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/...
) |
BPD > BD |
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None |
None |
None |
Depression |
BPD > BD |
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None |
None |
None |
Anxiety (Leibenluft, 2014Leibenluft, E. (2014). Categories and dimensions, brain and behavior: the yins and yangs of psychopathology. JAMA Psychiatry, 71(1), 15-17. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.2810 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1001/...
) |
BPD > BD |
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Unable to stop worrying about his mother (epi. II, III) |
Constantly worried about the future of the Empire (epi. V, VI) |
BPD |
Manic episodes (Fornaro et al., 2016Fornaro, M., Orsolini, L., Marini, S., Berardis, D., Perna, G., Valchera, A., Ganança, L., Solmi, M., Veronese, N., & Stubbs, B. (2016). The prevalence and predictors of bipolar and borderline personality disorders comorbidity: systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 195, 105-118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2016.01.040 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/...
; World Health Organization, 1992World Health Organization. (1992). The ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders: clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines.) |
BD-I > BPD |
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None |
None |
None |