I can't tell you how distressed I am at the way mental illness --its diagnosis, treatment, pain-- is tossed around social media. Most people have no idea what they are talking about, but they are seduced by the "dysfunction du jour." I have had decades of training and experience in psychopathology and psychotherapy and I have a healthy reserve about throwing diagnoses around or acting like they aren't fluid-- as theory and research progress.

I don't like to see people labeled as "borderlines" (or bi-polars etc) This casual lumping people together reduces people to labels and ignores that the labels only give us no sense of how a person suffers. Yes, when I speak of my own mental illness diagnosis, I say

"I suffer from a severe mood disorder" or "I suffer from bi-polar 2. There is next to no accountability when it comes to writing about mental illness. There is an assumption that more exposure is a sign of lessening stigma. Sloppy, untrue, sensationalized writing is responsible for more.

I am glad you are doing so well and using hard earned wisdom to enlighten all of us.