@BillRM,
We were discussing one particular person, Princess Diana, who did have some serious emotional and psychiatric problems, for which she sought treatment.
Those problems definitely included Bulimia, and were likely associated with a Borderline Personality Disorder--and there has been no "massive expansion" of either of those two diagnostic entities, as Hawkeye tried to assert, nor would most people suffer from either of those two mental disorders.
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That why we read in the press what a large percents of the total population need mental health treatment that is not getting it?
That's a meaningless statement, which also has no relevance to the particular person we are discussing.
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In any case if you place enough pressure on anyone there will be crack of one kind or another appearing in that person personality.
Personalities don't "crack", except in layman's inaccurate vernacular, and most people do not suffer from a personality disorder.
Your knowledge of the etiology of personality disorders is apparently as abysmal as your knowledge of everything else.
When a person with a pre-existing personality disorder is placed under stress, they may manifest other problems which are consistent with that personality disorder.
If Princess Diana did suffer from a personality order, as many experts have speculated was the case, that personality disorder was present prior to her marriage, and nothing about her marriage, or the stresses of her life after that marriage, was the cause of that personality disorder. However, as a person already suffering from a personality disorder, she would have less adaptive, or effective, ways of coping with such stress, than a person who does not suffer from such a disorder, and she would consequently be more likely to manifest additional problems, such as Bulimia.
Her particular emotional/personality problems were not, at all, typical of the norm for anyone.
