May 3, 2018
As a psychologist, on the one hand I feel very satisfied with the openness of conversations surrounding mental health but on the other, I do suspect there to be an unfortunate skew in our willingness to speak about acceptance for certain mental health conditions like anxiety & depression spectrum while alienating &/or shaming others like borderline personality disorder, bipolar spectrum et al. These unfair and discriminatory viewpoints emerge from beaten-to-flat-tin psychology tropes in popular culture that do nothing more thanto labour towards propagating false dichotomies.
Scherezade Siobhan, Navigating the Borderline : A Therapy Guide for BPD