Amber Heard Diagnosed With Borderline Personality Disorder

A psychologist by the name of Shannon Curry testified in court for team Depp on the 9th day of Johnny Depp’s defamation trial in Fairfax, Virginia, that after spending 12 hours with Amber Heard and reviewing case files, and audio clips, the actress shows signs of Borderline Personality Disorder and Histrionic Personality Disorder.

Dr. Curry said she was first approached by Johnny Depp’s legal team so she could “review the case materials and provide my opinions regarding anything I noticed that was consistent or even nonconsistent with the psychological science that exists today on intimate partner violence in Mr. Depp and Ms. Heard’s relationship.”

Dr. Curry reviewed “all the case documents” as part of her evaluation of the Amber Heard, as well as Heard’s medical records (including for “mental-health treatment”), audio and video recordings, photos, and “multiple witness statements.” She said she met with Heard “on two separate dates,” Dec. 10 and Dec. 17, 2021, for about 12 hours of total face time.

Amber Heard – What Are Border Personality Disorder, And Histrionic Personality Disorder?

According to Mayo Clinic, a borderline personality disorder is “a mental health disorder that impacts the way you think and feel about yourself and others, causing problems functioning in everyday life. It includes self-image issues, difficulty managing emotions and behavior, and a pattern of unstable relationships.”

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“With borderline personality disorder, you have an intense fear of abandonment or instability, and you may have difficulty tolerating being alone. Yet inappropriate anger, impulsiveness, and frequent mood swings may push others away, even though you want to have loving and lasting relationships,” the group adds.

Histrionic personality disorder, according to Mayo Clinic, is a condition “characterized by dramatic, overly emotional or unpredictable thinking or behavior.” In her testimony, Dr. Curry said that those with the condition can tend to take on a “victim” or “princess” role with false stories.

According to the clinic, it can manifest in “constantly seeking attention”; being “excessively emotional, dramatic or sexually provocative to gain attention”; “speak(ing) dramatically with strong opinions, but few facts or details to back them up” and more.

Amber Heard – On Dr. Curry’s Evaluation And Findings

Dr. Curry said, “The evaluation, we spent 12 hours directly with one another. The results of Ms. Heard’s evaluations supported two diagnoses: Borderline Personality Disorder and Histrionic Personality Disorder.”

“There was information that supported it from multiple sources,” she added when asked how she came to those conclusions. “I conducted testing including — one of the main tests that I used, she obtained scores that were consistent with those diagnoses and there was evidence of those diagnoses in her records and self-report [or things Heard told Dr. Curry ‘specifically’].”

“There were a couple of characteristics that she noted in her self-report that were consistent with these personality disorders. The first was my own behavioral observations of her based on my self-report,” she continued. “One of the hallmark characteristics of Histrionic Personality Disorder is an overly dramatic presentation … it tends to be very flowery, it uses a lot of descriptive words and it can go on for quite some time but really lacks any substance, so at the end, you’re left wondering what was just said. That occurred a number of times.”

Dr. Curry also commented on what she saw as the “quick shifts” between emotions during her time with Heard.

“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. “People who are observing them may feel like they’re almost play-acting … part of it is the rapidness with which the person can switch emotions and also the lack of substance. Very rarely and Ms. Heard did not say, ‘I feel vulnerable.'”

Dr. Curry went on to detail the specific tests she ran on Heard to come to her diagnosis, before revealing more of what she said she witnessed through their discussions.

“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. “Some of the primary characteristics were essentially externalization and blame, tending to have a lot of inner hostility that is attempted to be controlled, a tendency to be very self-righteous but to also deny that self-righteousness and to judge others critically against these high standards for moral value but also to deny doing that. Essentially to claim that one is very nonjudgmental and accepting and yet very full of rage really.”

Speaking of the Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis, Dr. Curry said Heard’s medical records indicated she had a “temper” and “cut her arm in the past,” which she explained was a “typical, reactive type thing somebody with this diagnosis can do.” She also said she was “struck” by deposition testimony from Heard’s “former friend” Raquel Pennington, in which she said Amber Heard “struck her in the face, sort of out of the blue.” Dr. Curry explained it’s “one of those signs of Borderline Personality Disorder, where if a friend or loved one isn’t meeting your needs in that moment … they feel their needs should be met, when they want them to be met and if they’re not, that anger, that sense of harm causes them to react.”

Speaking about Histrionic Personality Disorder, she said “a lot of the key features” you’d notice with someone diagnosed with it “are going to be drama and shallowness” — where one would have “extreme discomfort with not being the center of attention, extreme efforts to be the center of attention” and, “when they feel they’re not the center of attention, you will see some strange things; making up stories to try to get attention, taking on a victim or princess role, seeking caretaking.”

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She added that people with this disorder are “very, very interested in looks, but more importantly they utilize their looks to get attention, get that respect that they’re seeking.”

Dr. Curry said Heard presented herself as someone “free of any problems and she did so in a way that was very sophisticated, not obvious.” She also concluded Heard doesn’t have PTSD and believed she “was grossly exaggerating symptoms of PTSD when asked about them.”

Dr. Curry noted that “Just because somebody doesn’t have PTSD doesn’t mean that they weren’t harmed psychologically by whatever is being alleged — in this case, Ms. Heard is alleging that she was psychologically harmed and that she suffered PTSD because of abuse that she alleges occurred by Mr. Depp.”

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