Was Princess Diana born crazy or did the royal family drive her crazy?

FUCK YOU OP, if you don't like Diana, go jack to pictures of Melania scissoring.

R1 Pop a Xanax and calm the fuck down, loon. What makes you think I didn't like Diana? We're not allowed to mention the fact she had obvious mental issues? How many times did she try to kill herself again (including hurling herself down stairs)? But we can when it comes to Judy Garland and plenty of other gay icons?

If you saw the royal family become lizards in front of your eyes you'd go nuts too.

I think she was a bit "delicate" from the beginning and being part of the Royal Family only exasperated that.

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R2, please learn to take a joke.

R6 Typing FUCK YOU in caps is a joke?

r4 I agree

Typing Fuck you in all caps on DL is the equivalent of being swaddled and spoon fed milk and honey elsewhere.

Ha ha! “ exasperated!“

It was her own family that drove her crazy. The Spencers are completely fucked up.

R11 Weren't there rumors of incest between Diana and one of her brothers or uncles or something as a kid?

She got off to a rocky start, but the Royals gaslighted the hell out of an already fragile person.

[quote]Weren't there rumors of incest between Diana and one of her brothers or uncles

We were assured she was examined and was a vestal virgin when she married. If this is not true, we need to know so we can form a committee to figure out what to do about it! This is a British Constitutional Crisis.

Her mother abandoned her at 6 years old to run off with a polo player IIRC. Did no one in the royal family take a moment to think about what that might have done to her? No, of course not. Rich people pay others to care for their children.

You don't grow up normal when icky old Barbara Cartland's your grandmother.

"Whatever 'in love" means".

A WTF statement heard round the word.

She was only 19.

Someone older and smarter would have walked away right then and there.

She was a kid.

Diana suffered from Borderline Personality Disorder. One doesn't pick that up from the in-laws, like a cold. Some psychiatrists attribute it to childhood trauma, such as the loss of a parent. Anyway, symptoms frequently grow more acute in the late teens or early 20s. She's really a textbook case.

She was mentally frail, and a bit “off” from the start.

Marrying into that shitshow family at a young age definitely exacerbated her issues.

When you have BPD, your crazy in-laws don't exacerbate the issues. Not a bit. If anything, it is more likely the other way around. The disease is much more serious than being a "bit 'off'".

I don't think she was categorically mentally ill. She was ill equipped to handle her emotions, ill equipped to handle the life she wound up with at twenty. And she was isolated - she said it herself once, the best way to dismantle a personality is to isolate it - so she had little to think about except herself. So I don't feel she was actually mentally ill but she was... emotionally stunted. She handled all negative emotions with no skill at all.

Please define BPD; I'm serious. I've read several definitions, but I still don't get it. Please, no links to Wiki or MedMD; I'm more interest in DL's definition, which is always more accurate/truthful.

TIA

I think she was already fragile when she married Charles. After all, she was already a 'Lady' so one would think she'd have a better idea of what she was taking on. All this stuff about her being 'an innocent' always puzzles me. She wasn't some random working class secretary or waitress. She was already a member of the aristocracy, although not a very high-up member. Prince Phillip faced a great deal of the same insider antagonism when he married the Queen, but he had a much stronger sense of self, and established himself and stared the old-school assholes down. I don't think Diana came into the marriage with the same sense of self. That's why her later actions, once the infidelities began to reveal themselves, manifested themselves in rather passive-aggressive actions to the entire royal family. After all, her in-laws actually did make an effort to offer her support when she was struggling, and didn't deserve the public kick in the shins they received.

R20... a personality disorder is not a “disease”, and it doesn’t qualify someone as “mentally ill”.

It’s a pattern of maladaptive behavior that lasts throughout one’s life.

And yes, being around difficult people can exacerbate the behavior.

She had a lot of emotional problems before she became a Royal. Becoming a Royal only exacerbated it. Her mother abandoned her and her siblings. She flunked out of school and occupied herself by being a babysitter to little children; a very unfocused, directionless girl. It's said that if Charles had only known her a little better (she and Charles hardly knew each other before marrying) he would have know she was not cut out to be a Royal. At any rate, she was a messed up girl before marrying the Prince of Wales. The Royal family didn't make her crazy.

Diana's family had a vacation home on the RF grounds, not to mention her haggy grandmother being one of the Queen Mother's best friends.

That being said, she was a young girl marrying into a group crazier than her.

"That being said, she was a young girl marrying into a group crazier than her."

They weren't "crazier than her." Nobody in the Royal family was crazier than her. Poor Di was NUTS.

Textbook case of Borderline Personality Disorder. More nature than nurture - bad genes, one imagines. Events in one's life certainly can worsen it (abandonment by a parent).

Living with the Royal Family certainly exacerbated her personality disorder - multiple suicidal gestures, fear of abandonment which led to her phoning/harassing married men incessantly and have multiple affairs; unable to soothe herself without resorting to maladaptive behaviours.

R3, Please expound upon your response. Are you speaking figuratively? Mean that they were cold-blooded?

Diana was unstable. Life with the Royal Family who hadn't clue how to deal with her just made her mental state worse.