The highly publicised trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard — as it clogs social media feeds and headlines around the world — will be the first time many people will have heard of a mental health condition called borderline personality disorder.
They heard about it like this. As part of Depp’s defence, an expert witness testified that in the course of two sessions, she had diagnosed Heard with two “overlapping” disorders. Borderline personality disorder, and the rarer histrionic personality disorder.
