Bryan Kohberger Says He Was Diagnosed With 4 Mental Health Disorders

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.

In a June court filing obtained by PEOPLE, Kohberger wrote that he was diagnosed with: “Autism (level 1); OCD; ADHD; ARFID.”

All 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.

Individuals with autism level 1 are high-functioning, display only a few symptoms of the disorder and often require no assistance to perform everyday tasks.

OCD is obsessive compulsive disorder, which is typically characterized by an individual engaging in repetitive behaviors in an attempt to shut out unwanted thoughts.

Attention-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.

The 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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Kohberger 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.

He 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.

The filing was dated June 29, just days before he formally entered his plea in court.

On July 2, Kohberger appeared in court and confessed to killing the four University of Idaho students: Madison Mogen, 21; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20.

Three weeks later he was back in court, where he was sentenced to serve four lifetimes in prison for those murders.