Mental health “advice” from Trisha
Oh this one’s a doozy.
For the record, I have BPD. Diagnosed 7 years ago after it nearly destroying my life and becoming suicidal because I didn’t understand what was happening to me.
This stupid woman claims to have gone through “intensive therapy” but somehow doesn’t understand even slightly what BPD is. She talks repeatedly here about “manic episodes” to excuse her making & publishing unhinged videos being a huge bitch to people that she got backlash for.
PEOPLE WITH BPD DO NOT HAVE MANIC EPISODES. WE DO NOT HAVE MANIA.
She’s thinking of bipolar disorder, and if she had really been working with therapists for years and had a genuine diagnosis, she’d know this.
In my sadly pretty knowledgeable experience with BPD, I think she’s faking. I think she’s lying about her diagnosis just like she lied about being diagnosed with schizophrenia, or with dissociative identity disorder. She lies about it to get pity, to get a pass for truly disgusting behaviour, and just because she thinks it makes her a more sympathetic character.
All those kitchen floor videos she harps on about being her “dark times and lowest days”? Go back and watch them, its rare she sheds any real tears in them. Those breakdowns were fake, her therapy is fake, her “recovery” is fake, and she feeds into dangerous stigmas around BPD that actively make my life even harder than it already is.
She needs to fucking stop. We collectively need to stop enabling this self-diagnosis bullshit both Trisha & Tana love to do. I covered her face because she has such a smug expression all the way through, the filters are cranked up to 11, and I’m just so angry she gets to spew all this bullshit online with zero pushback.
/rant over
EDIT:
The replies here have been a shining example of why Trisha is so dangerous to believe about this. A shocking number of people believe her that physical violence, being a huge liar, and going full tilt to destroy people who fall out with you are just ‘normal BPD things’! They aren’t. These are false stigma’s around BPD that need to end.
Trisha chose BPD deliberately because she knew it would make her audience very sympathetic to her, unlike any of the way more likely diagnoses in cluster B that she might have but wouldn’t give her the same grace and forgiveness.
The really gross responses have been the ones trying to gaslight me that it’s crazy, unhinged, or just a symptom of my illness to be angry about this. Well done on demonstrating how biased, uneducated and harmful you are. You’re the ones who feed these stigmas and actively harm people.