Luke, meanwhile, is a textbook model of adolescent depression, what with his "not doing chores, hanging out in bars," and "bullseyeing womp rats," and later shows symptoms of prodromal schizophrenia, including auditory and visual hallucinations and grandiose delusions of saving the galaxy.
According to our observations on Star Wars, Anakin presents a BPD pattern mainly related to emotional instability, impulsivity, and aggressiveness traits.
INFP types lead with Introverted Feeling, which makes decisions based on what feels right and authentic to the individual. Even when his choices don't make sense to the people around him, and often in the face of strong opposition, Luke holds fast to his inner convictions.
George Lucas considered various characterizations for the protagonist of the original Star Wars film. The possibilities included a 60-year-old grizzled war hero, a Jedi Master, a dwarf, and a woman.
It was released in 1977 after the legendary filmmaker grappled with the idea of making the movie's protagonist a woman. He eventually decided to create two heroes; Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia. A female version of Luke Skywalker that never came light.
Victor Jun, an Alliance recruiter, would often act on the orders given to him by the voices in his head, which sometimes involved murder. Zuckuss, a Gand bounty hunter, also suffered from schizophrenia, which developed after he had left his homeworld.
Indeed, Skywalker exhibited six out of nine of the borderline personality disorder criteria laid out in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV), although fitting five is enough for a diagnosis.
I suggest that when Ren's emotional outbursts, impulsivity, and unstable self-concept are looked at more closely, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that he suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder and that perhaps he is simply not just a cold-hearted villain after all.
This mystery was especially prevalent in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but The Last Jedi overcorrected it by claiming Rey is not related to any established original trilogy Star Wars characters. Then The Rise of Skywalker revealed, in an out-of-left-field retcon, that Rey is the granddaughter of Emperor Palpatine.
Born on the planet Hyperkarn in 15 ABY, Rey Palpatine was the daughter of Dathan and Miramir. While their names were lost to history, Rey's father was the cloned son—an artificial genetic strandcast—of the resurrected Darth Sidious, making her the granddaughter of the fallen Galactic Emperor and Dark Lord of the Sith.
By the events of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Luke's crush on Leia had completely disappeared, as he only considers her a friend, he became annoying when Leia kissed him in a failed attempt to prove that she doesn't have any romantic feelings for Han.
In Star Wars, younglings were traditionally recruited into the Jedi Order from an early age — so young that 9-year-old Anakin Skywalker faced opposition as being too old to train. However, during the original trilogy, Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi resolved to train a 19-year-old Luke Skywalker.
How old was Anakin when Luke and Leia were born? In canon, he was 22 (he was born in 41 BBY, and Luke and Leia were born in 19 BBY). In Legends, accounts vary saying he's either 22 or 23. Interestingly enough, he was around two years younger than Ben Solo was in the TLJ flashback were Luke reads his mind.
Kylo/Ben was born about a year after Return of the Jedi so he's roughly 29 when we first see him in The Force Awakens, also possibly having turned 30 during The Last Jedi.
Canon has established that Anakin, while brilliant, has a very flighty attention span and unless it's something that is deeply important to him or made glaringly obvious, his brain has a tendency to skip over it, and makes him less aware. Anakin and HYPERFOCUS: The flip side of ADHD focus issues.
These changes caught the attention of a group of psychologists and psychiatrists, who conducted a study on Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader in which they diagnosed the iconic villain as having borderline personality disorder.
Some assert that Anakin had narcissistic personality disorder, while others posit, he had bipolar personality disorder, contradicting to each other; some assert he had borderline personality disorder, while others are challenging these claims; some assert he had PTSD while others doesn't even consider it.
