Brandon Marshall Diagnosed With Borderline Personality Disorder

Picture a man who one day in training camp vows to help his team win a championship by any means necessary, then another day is suspended for punting balls out of practice and refusing to catch passes thrown his way. A man whose reputation as one of the NFL’s most generous contributors to charities is rivaled only by his having compiled one of its most notorious rap sheets. A man who is considered by some reporters one of the league’s most enjoyable interviews, by others its most stressful.

As telling as these images are, they explain only part of the story of an individual suffering from borderline personality disorder, a condition Marshall has struggled with throughout his five-year NFL career.

“By no means am I all healed or fixed, but it’s like a light bulbs been turned on in my dark room,” Marshall said of the diagnosis.

Marshall underwent sessions over the phone and occasional in-person visits, but following an altercation with his wife, Marshall stepped up his treatments. Marshall spent nearly three months in the Boston area, undergoing several hours of meetings each day with clinicians and fellow BPD patients learning how to process his emotions.

Marshall talked with police after a subpoena had been issued in his name. What had held up Marshall’s statement was a no-contact order placed on his wife, Michi Nogami-Marshall. It had been put in place after the alleged April 22 incident in which she stabbed him in the stomach with a kitchen knife.

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Jeff Darlington of the Miami Herald has obtained a copy of the 911 call made after the Brandon Marshall stabbing incident over the weekend. The 911 call doesn’t reveal any new information but you can hear the audio here.

Here’s a transcript of the initial 11 second call.

Marshall is the victim in this instance but, based on his past, some Dolphins players weren’t surprised trouble found Marshall, writes Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald.

Despite the weekend, incident, the Dolphins have no plans to release Marshall if/when the lockout is lifted.

In the police report, Marshall claimed he fell on a vase. Of course we now know that’s not the truth. His wife has already admitted that she stabbed him, claiming it was out of self defense, and she has been jailed.

Details of the incident are still coming in but I thought one detail -- Marshall claiming he fell on a vase -- sounded familiar.

The police report has been obtained by the Miami Herald confirming that his wife has been charged with aggravated battery/deadly weapon in a domestic violence case.

Here is the police’s description of the situation in the report. Marshall is the victim and his wife is the defendant in the report.

The facts are that Marshall was stabbed on Friday night and taken to an area hospital where doctors performed surgery. His wife has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

The police report reveals each side has a different take on what happened.

Unfortunately, that can’t communicate with him. Even with an incident like this, the NFL lockout prohibits teams from speaking with players. That’s the gist of the statement Dolphins spokesman Harvey Greene released on Saturday morning:

Yet another downside to the NFL lockout: the Dolphins $50 million investment is stabbed and they can’t check on him. They can send messages of support but that’s about it.

In the hours after Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall was stabbed, it now appears that his injuries, thankfully, are relatively minor. The NFL network’s Jason La Canfora tweets:

Given the NFL lockout in place, players and team officials are largely prohibited from contacting one another. However, in this special case, an NFL spokesman was quoted by NFL.com as saying that this incident is an exception.

The good news is that the stabbing isn’t expected to be a long-term injury. Via ESPN:

From a football standpoint, this won’t be affecting him. He’s one of the best young receivers in the game so I’m thrilled there won’t be any long-term damage.

Brandon Marshall was stabbed Friday and is in intensive care in a Miami hospital, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that Marshall’s wife, Michi Nogami-Marshall, was arrested Friday on a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

Marshall had runs of trouble in Denver, and has been arrested for DUI, domestic abuse and battery in the past. It is unclear what led to this incident, and it has yet to be confirmed Nogami-Marshall’s arrest is related to Marshall’s injury. Marshall is one of the most physically talented wide receivers in the NFL, but wore out his welcome in Denver. After being traded to Dolphins last April, he signed a four-year, $47.5 million contract.