AnnaLynne McCord Reveals Her Mental Health Diagnosis

Posted by Sebrina Pilcher on Friday, May 3, 2024

In April 2021, AnnaLynne McCord shared she has dissociative identity disorder (DID), previously called multiple personality disorder. She got extremely candid about her diagnosis with Amen Clinics, revealing she's "uninterested in shame" which has allowed her to be able to "articulate the nature of these pervasive traumas... as horrible as they are."

McCord explained she doesn't have any memory before she was around 5 years old, but can "recount incidents throughout" from 5 until 11. At 13, she explained she has "a singled-out memory that was one thing, but [doesn't] have the sense of anything else at that time." In addition to being raped at 18, McCord told People in 2019 she'd received "treatment for PTSD and memories of child sexual abuse [that] came back for years all the way until I was 11."

McCord explained that she used her other personalities while acting, but didn't fully realize until filming 2012's horror movie Excision. She recalled how she struggled to return to her 90210 character right after, admitting she stayed in a "dark" place. "I played a very cerebral, disturbed, strange little girl that was very close to who I feel I am on the inside," McCord said, calling it "very exposing, very confronting" and "a bit re-traumatizing without realizing it."

McCord shared she'd already done a lot of work on herself and wanted to "change the narrative around the behaviors that follow trauma," revealing she's working on a treatment plan.

If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health, please contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741, or call the National Alliance on Mental Illness Helpline at 1-800-950-NAMI (6264).

If you or someone you know has been the victim of sexual assault, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit RAINN.org for additional resources.

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