Borderline personality disorder

A forensic psychologist called by Johnny Depp's legal team testified on Monday that she diagnosed his ex-wife Amber Heard with borderline personality ...

“One of the most common tactics that they’ll use is actually physically assaulting and then getting harmed themselves, but mostly, we call this ‘administrative violence.’ Essentially this is saying that they’ll make threats using the legal system,” Curry said. “All of it is like pistons of an engine, kind of firing off and igniting one another,” Curry testified. “Over time, the anger—the explosive anger—that they show when somebody is needing space, or when somebody is really not doing anything wrong, because a lot of times they read into things that they perceive as being a slight to them or being somebody intending to harm them that actually isn’t happening. Both diagnoses appear back-to-back among “Cluster B Personality Disorders” listed in the American Psychiatric Association’s most recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: the DSM-5. And those desperate attempts could be physical aggression, it could be threatening, it could be harming themselves, but these are behaviors that are very extreme and very concerning to the people around them.” Curry’s testimony fell one day after Depp took to the witness stand in support of his defamation claims against Heard, who accused him of domestic abuse.

The doctor made her diagnosis after spending 12 hours with the actress and reviewing case files.

Curry said she came to the conclusion that there was "some sort of violence both ways" in the relationship, but her evaluation only pertained to Heard. Heard's lawyer also pointed out how Curry's opinion contrasted from others who treated Amber previously, including a psychiatrist who believed Depp was the aggressor and Heard was the victim of domestic violence. She also said she was "struck" by deposition testimony from Heard's "former friend" Raquel Pennington, in which she said Amber "struck her in the face, sort of out of the blue." Curry said Heard presented herself as someone "free of any problems and she did so in a way that was very sophisticated, not obvious." Depp is seeking $50 million in damages after Heard claimed she was a survivor of domestic abuse in an op-ed in the Washington Post in 2018. "She would suddenly be one way and then she would be very animated or very sad and when people are displaying emotions with this personality disorder, there's a sense of shallowness to it," she explained. "One of the primary things I learned is she had a very sophisticated way of minimizing any personal problems. There were a number of characteristics that were consistent with the eventual diagnoses," she continued. They have a capacity to offer some of their faults, but only the ones people can think of lightly and can all relate to. "There were a couple characteristics that she noted in her self-report that were consistent with these personality disorders. "There was information that supported it from multiple sources," she added when asked how she came to those conclusions. That occurred a number of times." She added that intimate partner violence is when there's physical or psychological abuse from one partner to another.