'Saturday Night Live' Star Pete Davidson: I Have Borderline Personality Disorder

Tacky

It maybe was the weed. Who knows.

Sad clowns are so passe.

That is some serious shit. I have a friend who's daughter was diagnosed at 14. She came after her mother with a knife and has been hospitalized multiple times.

Typical millemial who like to constantly share.

Do Borderlines ever get better? Do medications help them, at all? My new co-worker told us all last week she "use to be" BPD.

R6 I don't think it's as controllable as bi-polar. The person with it can have rage issues and suicide is very common.

[quote] 'Saturday Night Live' Star Pete Davidson: I Have Borderline Personality Disorder

How does that make him any different from pretty much any SNL player since Belushi ( excluding Phil Hartman ).

R1 wins the DL today.

Cecily Strong - you in danger, gurl.

Oh, honey, don't have ANY personality.

[quote]This has been the worst year of my life,

Thanks.

Borderline is the worst personality disorder to have around you. I've worked with one and it's fucking awful

Why does he always overshare?

[quote]Why does he always overshare?

I don't know. Maybe he has an issue with his personality. Just guessing.

Info on BPD.

It wasn't that long ago everyone here was saying he had BDF.

Well Borderline and Trans are often the same thing.

[quote]Cecily Strong - you in danger, gurl.

Cecily has her own mental health issues. She was on a podcast where she said she takes medication for anxiety.

I have the bad feeling that Pete will end up being another Chris Farley type tragedy.

Ellen DeGeneres makes it work for her, maybe he needs to dance on the show more?

You can't treat BPD. They're dangerous to society. He's an idiot for announcing this. He thinks it's like coming out bisexual. What a moron.

The SNL curse hasn't struck in years. Maybe, the curse will take Pete.

He is not funny and suffers from dork face.

R23 I have never found him funny. He along with Leslie Jones, and Kyle Mooney should have been fired from SNL.

I hate to say this- he plays up the "My dad was firefighter killed on 9/11" a little too much. He reminds me of that American Idol contestant whose father was a 9/11 firefighter who survived, but had health issues afterwards. That contestant on AI brought her dad a bunch of times on the show and eventually people got fed up with it and trashed her online.

He's still cute.

A BDO diagnosis is not the kind of thing to be dismissed like "Thank god that a celebrity has owned up to this." Not to disparage him if he is saddled with this, but it's inherently problematic. It's weird that he's owning up to this. For many of us, our experience with BPD is Olivia Soprano. Or our own mothers.

Doesn't sound like something he could hide. People reveal everything today and they are usually celebrated for it so why is this any different?

He's very funny and very good in front of a camera. Borderline Personality Disorder is a mess. But all mental illness comes in various shapes and sizes. Let's hope his is manageable.

Borderlines can be trained to 'act' normal. Basically you have no fixed center (internal locus of control) or ability to regulate your emotions. Better to admit you are a pedophile than admit to BPD.

BPD + BDF

the cure is 1) no pot 2) whisky is allowed 3) shut the fuck up and drop your pants.

Like NPD/Narcissism there is no treatment or cure for BPD.... and like NPD it also gets worse with age, not better. It is not true that one outgrows it.

Not really all that much of a difference between NPD and BPD. Both are awful and the awful people with these disorders are to be avoided. They will fuck up your life big time.

He is also histrionic thus we now know about the BPD.

Pete, could I please see you in my office.

I have to correct the common misconception about BPD. It is treatable and people can make a lot of progress. The problem is, it takes a hell of a lot of work, often many years, and because of how difficult such patients can be, most therapists throw them in the "too hard" basket. I was very fortunate. I understand why the other comments in this thread treat BPD as pretty much synonymous with sociopaths but we're not. Far from having no empathy or conscience, I had what's called hyper-empathy. I felt like I had no skin and every little piece of suffering in the world hurt me personally. I also had (and still have ) a huge capacity to feel guilt. The trouble is, it would only come AFTER I'd exploded with rage. But after years of treatment with an extraordinarily good therapist, I no longer have these explosions. I'm mainly writing this so that anyone suffering from BPD or who as a loved one who suffers from it, doesn't feel hopeless and give up.

Yikes, this was a bad thing to admit to.

It’s not fashionable, Pete.

Are you confusing this for a more stylish disorder like bipolar?

Shame/rage cycles are a bitch to interrupt

[quote] I hate to say this- he plays up the "My dad was firefighter killed on 9/11" a little too much.

It seems like you actually like saying it. He didn't mention it in the RS article. Why would you? Oh, that's right, you're right wing internet minion paid to sling shit.

Any BPD's, histrionics or narcissists are to be avoided at all costs. They're a black hole of neediness and fuckery. No point in letting them in your life as they only use people then drop them like a hot potato when nothing more can be had. They can't take any criticism at all and will make out they're a victim when in fact they're the perpetrators.

Don't believe the BPD stories. We're actually lovely people to know!

I just thought he was retarded.

I think Pete is still dating Larry David's daughter, Cassie. I first saw them on some post Oscars show high as balls. Months later Pete said he had drug problems and was getting clean because of Cassie. I find Cassie David pretty obnoxious, but Pete would be a fool to burn his connection to Larry David and that set.

He also has Crohn's disease which explains the bulging eyes, a classic symptom.

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He DOES overshare. I remember on one 9/11 anniversary, he tweeted about his late father's large penis and that he misses seeing it. That's a bit much even if it is true.

His Dad kinda looks like Boston Rob from SURVIVOR.

Bipolars are impossible to deal with too. I have an ex who was bipolar, & it was like being in hell.

Thank you R34.

[quote]Let's hope his is manageable.

That’s thing. We can’t force people to take their medication. I have a friend who’s bipolar and doesn’t take his medication as prescribed, but I can keep my distance until he works it out, and I won’t be affected.

I can’t imagine being in a relationship with him. That shit goes down once...I’m out. What I find annoying is that he has no problem taking a Tylenol for a headache or a Benadryl. NONE. But taking his SSRI is a WHOLE dramatic event.

R48 people grow accustom to who they are, and don't like change. The side effects of most psychotropic drugs is what most people like to avoid, but some just simply like the angst of the highs and lows and the discord they create because it's familiar and "safe".

R34 you are rare. Keep sharing your story. People like you will eventually help professionals develop a regimen that will work.

Can Ann Coulter please be in the vicinity the next time Pete has a rage episode?

R38 pretty well describes my older sister who offed herself in the early 1980's, at the age of 37. I don't know if she had a BPD diagnosis, or if that was even possible to receive in the early 1980's. This is an area of medicine that constantly reinvents what it does. Whatever the diagnosis, it was not shared with me.

She never could get it together and hold it together for long. Personal relationships were nearly impossible for her. Her mental illness all but destroyed her own child. The few friends she maintained for any period of time had the patience of saints. It was all so difficult. So unwaveringly difficult. Most of all, for her.

Good luck, Pete.

[quote]He DOES overshare. I remember on one 9/11 anniversary, he tweeted about his late father's large penis and that he misses seeing it. That's a bit much even if it is true.

I remember that one too. I thought it was really weird. He doesn't bring up his father that much in a recent interviews. Lately, it's about his drug problems and now BPD. I wonder if Lorne Michaels pushed him to rehab.

I AM A VICTIM IN SO MANY WAYS. NOTICE ME AND HONOR MY VICTIMHOOD OR I'LL STALK YOU AND CUT YOU!!!!!

so is career is kaput, right?

Is embarrassment, yes?

HIs father had EGF: Extreme Gay Face.

The perfect complement to a large penis.

My grandmother has this and it shocks me that my mom and aunts are as kind and loving as they are. Back in the 90's my grandma's psychiatrist basically told my mom to run for the hills and that my grandmother was mostly likely not ever going to get better.

That said, I wish Pete all the best.

Lol, r53.

He looks like a serial killer.

Aren't these borderline types known as legendary sluts in perpetual heat?

That kind of oversharing is such a millennial thing. No one knows from privacy anymore. No one values it.

Such a strange world I find myself in .

[quote]Such a strange world I find myself in .

Always a way out.

R62 Don't think I'm not considering it.

Agree, R61. So tacky.

My sister has it (or, she told me that's what her therapist wrote on her file). She has gotten better over the years, as she's getting help from a therapist and maybe has found a drug combo that works.

Her life was a total mess from ages 14-43. She knows she has a problem and is working to improve herself. She will probably remain single for the rest of her life. She had one long relationship and I have no idea how it lasted so long. I guess the guy had a savior complex. And my sister is VERY attractive, so she's gotten away with a lot. You can see when the men figure it out, and then they're gone. Same with friends. The people who stick around are those she's in a mutually beneficial cooperation.

If she weren't my sister,I would have ditched her a very long time ago. But she has some redeeming qualities and I love her despite her insanity.

From what I've read, and what some have shared here on DL, the only effective approach to treating BPD is conversational therapy. The trouble with this approach is getting the patient to cop to their issues, which most are not willing to do.

Perhaps, Pete admitting he has BPD is an important step in overcoming the typical narcissistic tendencies and shows a willingness to lay bare the usual manipulative tactics.

He may now be able to take on therapy in an honest, committed and realistic way.

I'm rooting for him.

Now, STFU

Great career choice, Pete!

Build the wall

In my day, we called them crazy junkies.

My shrink (MD) just said BPD does in fact level out and lesson after 40. So...... She also armchair diagnosed the younger Angelina Jolie as having obviously been dealing with BPD.

*lessen

^ Not true for the BPD people I have known and it runs in my family. They got worse with age.

The outbursts were less frequent but that's about all that improved. They still had outbursts and other behaviors no one wants to deal with. They did get better at hiding the disorder though, and deceiving unsuspecting people, but as an individual they got worse over the years, not better.

I also know someone who reunited with a former classmate who had BPD. They met in college and after graduation went their separate ways for good reason. She said reuniting with her was the biggest mistake of her life. They were both in their late 40's when the BPD former classmate contacted her on FB a few yrs ago. She thought she outgrew it and had matured and so she took a chance.

But only a few weeks into the re-established relationship, and once she had access to her family including her two teenage kids, she caused all kinds of problems in her family. There was all kinds of crazy drama going on and she had a hard time getting rid of her. Like NPD/narcissists and socios I don't think they change. I think they lighten up at bit, but they are still disordered and messed up in the head shit disturbers. That's my opinion based upon my experiences.

Just relaying what my shrink, an MD shrink, said to me.

The ones north of 40 are the creepy ones who think they are engaged to the person who said hello in the lobby and end up killing that person for cheating when they also say hello to the next pretty gal...

oh my! shiver

Absolutely Not! Borderline disordered do not "get better with age." A combination of currently available meds and less ability to survive their actions might slow then down. They adapt.

No disrespect to anyone with a mental health disorder. It's the same as any physical condition. It worsens with age.

Name one physical condition that improves with age. Same with the brain.

This article claims BPD people can even out with age.

They may slow down with age due to physical limits, but that’s hardly the same thing as getting better...

I remember reading that MAOIs could probably help people with BDP -- one of the things MAOIs specifically ameliorates is sensitivity to interpersonal rejection, a symptom which frequently accompanies, and exacerbates, BPD. Unfortunately, though, MAOIs are no longer en vogue, and many psychiatrists do not prescribe them.

With good reason

Because psychiatry and psychology are not sciences, but Big Pharma pill pushers.

BDP = BPD

I have it too. Its a real thing. Runs in the family. I just thank god I have a high iq and am good looking, can't imagine how I'd function without it. Probably would have committed suicide by now as many bridges I've burned. I love too hard, and hurt too easily. I'm also very guarded and naturally shy, which is independent of being BPD.. But having BPD is like a revolving door of personalities. Like being a schizod without hearing voices n shit. But you really feel too many emotions all the time so theres a tendency to shut down as to overwhelm your psyche and get into feeling hurt in interpersonal relationships. You can feel happiness, its just a revolving door of personalities and emotions sometimes even affecting your own self identity. Its like the inverse of a sociopath.

They all eventually murder someone

R85 AW had antisocial personality disorder, in addition to BPD. She scored a 32/40 on the Hare Psychopathy Checklist.

As long as the new meds don’t fuck with functionality of Pete’s beautiful cock, who cares?

r82=Kirstie Alley, eating Doritos

Is they why they are afraid to fire him? He sucks

R89 I have wondered about that too. If Pete Davidson's illness causes drama on the set maybe Lorne looks the other way. Cheri Oteri is bipolar and years ago Tracy Morgan said she could be a nightmare to work with. It seems Lorne put up with it. Davidson isn't in a lot of sketches and I don't think he has recurring characters. He probably just waits around for the writers to ask him to be in their sketches.

I don't watch every week, but it seems like he's always a supporting character. His SMD special needed a lot of work.

He was on Weekend Update last night joking about how he wouldn't be depressed if they put him in more sketches.

He was on a lot more in the past but the last year when he was in rehab and stuff his role seemed to be diminished.

Sobriety looks good on him. His skin is clearer.

[quote] Like NPD/Narcissism there is no treatment or cure for BPD.... and like NPD it also gets worse with age, not better. It is not true that one outgrows it.

I remember reading the exact opposite in a scientific article, that past age 30 symptoms of BPD subside.

Why do you people lie so much? It's almost like you want this guy to be miserable. What has he done to you?

Here is a pretty interesting interview with him. He starts discussing the Borderline stuff at around the one hour mark.

In 2005, before BPD became so commonly diagnosed, my office got a new coworker: a 46-year-old man, who was the nicest guy in the world. He told us that he had recently (within the past few months) been diagnosed as being bipolar and that he has on medication for it. We couldn't believe it. He was the calm and nice. Then one day he stopped taking his medicine. All hell broke loose

I know someone like that r96. He has like a hair trigger temper. He'll be fine and then he just loses it over the slightest thing. I avoid him!!!!

Boy, dating him must be a picnic: He's either on the toilet having bloody diarrhea, or raging or sobbing, or on the hair-trigger verge of doing any of the above.

I hope for his girlfriend's sake that he has a huge dick.

His girlfriend lives in LA and he is in NY so I guess she gets a break at least.

Crazy Bitch!

Doesn't he date Larry David's daughter? That would make sense why Lorne keeps him around.

yes r101.

He was kind of a breakthrough cast member the first few years he was on. His Weekend Update stuff was pretty well received. I don't think there was any talk of firing him.

Is he hung, R97???

Borderline and Bipolar are not the same

I liked the skit where he was an underage student sleeping with his teacher

R71, that's old psychiatric belief. They don't outgrow it

R34 & R84 (and three others posts by the same person) is skillfully trying to downplay BPD and sugarcoat while posting misleading information. And sugarcoating the disorder with your imaginary feelings of "hyper-empathy" is more bullshit because people with this disorder have no empathy. You're full of it. You are also trying to lead us, with your five misleading posts, to think one outgrows it, which also isn't true. You sugarcoat Borderline Personality Disorder when people with this disorder are impossible to be around and they *do not* out grow the disorder.

I believe you have BPD as you posted way upthread, but your posts are lies and you are lying. You might as well leave the thread as trying to mislead us hasn't worked so far. One more post and lie about it and I am going to F&F and BLOCK you for spreading misleading and untruthful information.

He's also not funny, untalented and ugly as fuck

I'd still fuck'im. Tall, lanky, pale, those lips....

Pale skin? Blech. I wonder how he would look with a tan. He looks unwell.

r107 is off his/her meds.

Mmmmm nooo R110. I love pale skin. Especially fish white with super dark hair and eyes. When I was still living in San Francisco I *loved* the first warm, sunny day in Dolores Park as men were starting their base color for summer.

Nothing worse than an unattractive BPD person who was told their whole lives that they were good looking discovering they're not. LOOK OUT! Yes, you were the best looking person in your family full of fugs but out in the world you ain't stacking up. The realization is always followed by a hospital stay. Ugh

Is he part black or something?

He’s part amphibian

I'm going to guess he was wrongly diagnosed.

BPD is an actual thing, I know - but, are more people being diagnosed with this lately? Seems to be a trend?

I can't believe anyone finds this exhausted-looking tardface attractive. Plus he won't shut up about himself. "My dad died in 9/11! I have a drug problem! Now I have a drinking problem! Now I'm bipolar!"

In a few months he'll be transsexual. Just you wait....

I think he's cute.

I thought he was cute until he got tattooed up. Not into the lizard looking skin.

Why does he think we care about his diagnosis, whatever it is he talks about in therapy, etc?

R107 I didn't believe the shit they posted either. I've know a BPD/NPD and they have NO empathy at all, but the funny thing is that they will tell people that they have more empathy than most people. I think they are confusing their self interests/self emotions to being empathic, they can feel for themselves but not others.

I can spot a NPD/BPD a mile away now and I just run the other way, they are fucking black holes to be avoided at all costs.

I had a relationship with a handsome BPD ten years ago and it was the worst thing that ever happened to me. He has lived in LA, Puerto Rico and now Spain, and the further from Boston the better. The sex was great for about 6 months, then it became a nightmare of rage, sadness, hateful behavior (to strangers). - I couldn't look at his face. Run!

My mother was/is BPD. There's a book called "Understanding The Borderline Mother" which seems to be the go-to for those of us in that boat. The author breaks the disorder down into 4 specific personality types - the Waif (helpless and needy), the Queen (demanding and egocentric), the Witch (my mother, an utter nightmare determined to stomp out any good feelings if she's is a bad mood) and the Hermit (pathologically withdrawn). And the types overlap quite a bit.

Post-menopause and now a Grandparent, my Mother has mellowed considerably. I still see flashes of it but she's even admitted that she was a nightmare while raising me and my siblings and actively wants to make sure my sister doesn't end up treating her kids the way she treated us. She's still a vindictive Trump voter who thinks the world needs to be taught a lesson about self-sufficiency (she's a retired schoolteacher on a public pension) but at least she doesn't treat her family like utter shit anymore. Holidays are genuinely pleasant and my Dad doesn't drink nearly as much as he used to to avoid her.

So it is hypothetically possible. More people being open about it can only help. Acknowledging it is also something very few BPD people ever do - my Mom doesn't think there was anything wrong other than she was impatient and didn't react to things as nicely as she should have. But I'll take it - there's peace in my family for the first time in several decades.

I have a relative who was diagnosed with BPD. It has almost destroyed her relationships with her parents and siblings. She does show some empathy, but she is a complete narcissist. You are either on her side or against her. She is a middle-aged woman who carries a festering rage about issues from her childhood, i. e. perceived slights, supposed favoritism shown to her siblings. Promiscuous behavior is common.

What's sad is that her parents are elderly and not well. Of her siblings, she could be the one who helps them out. Instead, she largely ignores their plight.

She has no job. Like other posters have noted, relationships with friends are easily broken.

"'Saturday Night Live' Star Pete Davidson: I Have Borderline Personality Disorder"

Ok. NEXT.

My BPD mother didn't start treating us well until the grandkids came along. But that's only because she fears being cut off and not seeing her grandkids and will do anything to avoid it, including acting normal when she is not normal. She didn't change. She is just pretending she changed so we won't estrange from her.

This way she has access to our kids whom she is very cleverly and covertly turning against us. She's all sweet and kind to us, yet has managed to inspire defiance in my nephew just for one instance. My sister and BIL sure as hell didn't do that and neither did those they attend school with. My mother is doing her dirty work behind our backs. So of course she is going to be pleasant and agreeable. This way we won't cut her off, which she fears. When we were dependent kids and needed her and we couldn't walk away she treated us horribly.

If my siblings and I were suddenly disabled or had cancer and needed her to help us out as we couldn't care for ourselves and we didn't have any kids to take away from her she'd be right back to treating us like shit. When they want/need something from you, even if that's just your company and that of your children, they act differently, and more normal.

The older they get, the more they fear loneliness. I do not believe they change. I believe they pretend so that they don't risk losing whatever it is they want or need and to avoid being alone. As far as we are concerned she is still BPD. She's just hiding it better than ever.

R128 wow, he is really immature