Pete Davidson remembers being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder in new interview

Pete Davidson recalled being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder in a recent interview.

The 27-year-old SNL friend sat down with Glenn Close for the series Actors on Actors in Variety, where he talked about the relief he felt when receiving an accurate diagnosis in 2017.

“I was always so confused all the time and I thought something was wrong and I didn’t know how to handle it,” he said.

He went on to say that understanding his condition and getting a proper diagnosis gave him a sense of ease.

“When someone finally tells you, the weight of the world feels off your shoulders. You feel much better.

He struggled for years to find the right doctors to work with and heard of the diagnosis.

One of my psychiatrists [diagnosed me]. He always said before this big crisis: “You’re probably bipolar or borderline, we just have to figure it out.”

In a 2017 WTF interview with Marc Maron, he explained that before the diagnosis, he was checked into a rehabilitation unit in 2016, after he thought his marijuana use was triggering mental problems.

“I started to have these mental crises in which I would like to be scared and then not remember what happened after that. Blind rage.

“They told me there, I’m like, ‘You might be bipolar,’ and I said, ‘OK.’ So they’re like, “We’ll try you on these drugs.” And then I went out [of rehab]and then I started smoking weed again – and I’m on medication, ‘he said.

After leaving the unit, he confessed that he “broke” and decided to completely stop the drug in his life, but later on Monday he found himself fighting, when he found out once and for all that he had BPD.

He said the symptoms of his disorder left him “depressed all the time”, but he was slowly coping. “It works, slowly but surely.”

– I had many problems. This year has been a nightmare. This was the worst year of my life, I was diagnosed with this and I tried to figure out how to learn with it and live with it. he told Maron.

In a 2020 interview with Charlamagne Tha God, he confessed: “I wake up depressed, but now I know my steps. I have to go out and be in the sun or take a walk. It’s just a matter of scheduling yourself to fool your brain.

The comedian lost his firefighter father in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, which he said certainly played a role in his mental health. “One day he was here and the next day he left.”

Davidson also told Charlamagne that he was thinking about suicide before saying, “I can’t, because I have a mother, a sister and a family.”