{"id":36745,"date":"2025-09-03T23:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=36745"},"modified":"2025-09-03T23:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:01:51","slug":"bryan-kohberger-says-he-was-diagnosed-with-4-mental-health-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=36745","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Kohberger Says He Was Diagnosed with 4 ‘Mental Health Disorders’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bryan Kohberger wrote in a June court filing that he was diagnosed with four “mental health disorders” in February 2025<\/p>\n

He said that he had been diagnosed with: autism (level 1), OCD, ADHD and the eating disorder ARFID<\/p>\n

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Kohberger also wrote that he was taking prescription medication to treat his hypothyroidism<\/p>\n

Bryan Kohberger revealed that he was diagnosed with four “mental health disorders” just a few months before he confessed to killing four University of Idaho students.
\nIn a June court filing obtained by PEOPLE, Kohberger wrote that he was diagnosed with: “Autism (level 1); OCD; ADHD; ARFID.”
\nAll four diagnoses were made in February 2025, Kohberger wrote. He also noted in the same document that he was taking just one prescription medication at the time: levothyroxine, which is used to treat hypothyroidism and is one of America’s most-prescribed medications.
\nIndividuals with autism level 1 are high-functioning, display only a few symptoms of the disorder and often require no assistance to perform everyday tasks.
\nOCD is obsessive compulsive disorder, which is typically characterized by an individual engaging in repetitive behaviors in an attempt to shut out unwanted thoughts.
\nAttention-deficit\/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is a developmental disorder that can manifest in a number of ways which vary from person-to-person. A majority of those diagnosed struggle to pay attention, while others struggle to stay organized, keep a schedule or stay focused on a specific task.
\nThe fourth diagnosis Kohberger received was for the eating disorder ARFID, which is an acronym for avoidant\/restrictive food intake disorder. Most common in children, this disorder manifests in highly selective eating habits that greatly limit an individual’s diet and can result in malnutrition and limit a person’s physical growth.
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\nKohberger did not try and claim he was not of sound mind because of any of these four diagnoses as it pertained to entering his guilty plea to the four charges of murder.
\nHe also wrote in the filing that he was aware of the fact that if the judge accepted his plea he would likely be sentenced to serve four lifetimes in prison along with an additional 10 years on a burglary charge.
\nThe filing was dated June 29, just days before he formally entered his plea in court.
\nOn July 2,\u00a0Kohberger appeared in court and confessed to killing the four University of Idaho students:\u00a0Madison Mogen, 21; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20.
\nThree weeks later he was back in court, where he was\u00a0sentenced to serve four lifetimes in prison\u00a0for those murders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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