Casey Anthony: Borderline Personality Disorder

Throughout the entire investigation and trial, multiple people wondered on Casey Anthony’s mental status as well as that of her parents. According to Doctors Danzieger and Weitz, in Albow’s article for FOX News, Casey Anthony did not qualify for any psychiatric diagnoses or certain personality disorders. The personality disorders in question where; antisocial (sociopathic) personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and borderline personality disorder. However, according to the very same article Casey sounded remarkably like a victim of sexual abuse especially in regards to the language that she used. Ablow used a term called Identity Suression Syndrome (a term he coined) to describe why Casey Anthony was so unresponsive to some moments …show more content…
If Casey truly did experience sexual abuse at the hands of her father when she was young, she could be experiencing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. However, she again does not seem to meet all of the required critera for PTSD. Casey’s failure to meet all of the requirements leads me to believe that she may have an Other Specified Dissociative Disorder (APA, 2013) or an Unspecified Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorder (APA, 2013). In my opinon, I believe that she suffers from some sort of disorder (or a mix of them) but I’m not quite sure what due to the fact that she could’ve have met some of the requirements for a disorder, but not all of them. I also believe that her parents have some sort of mental disorder. One article that I found illudes to the idea that dysfunctional family issues in Casey’s family could be a reason to explain some of her actions throughout the investigation and trial (McBride, 2011). The article also illudes to the idea that if Cindy was narcisstic and there was incest in the family, these dynamics could explain a