A Real Affliction: BPD, Culture, and Stigma
A Real Affliction: BPD, Culture, and Stigma
Podcast Description
A Real Affliction: BPD, Culture, and Stigma is an interview podcast that explores how we live with, treat, advocate for, write about, and conceptualize borderline personality disorder, as well as common co-occurring challenges like complex PTSD, eating disorders, and substance use disorder, all of which I’ve experienced. My guests and I will also discuss how literature, film, television, photography, dance, philosophy, the history of medicine, feminist and disability studies, nature, and bioethics reflect, illuminate, and impact the experience and cultural perceptions of BPD. The podcast’s goal is to increase access to effective, compassionate care. Episodes are released twice a month.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes surrounding borderline personality disorder, complex trauma, and stigma, featuring episodes that delve into cultural representations of BPD in literature and film, such as discussions on Twin Peaks and the impact of Mishell Baker's Borderline. It also addresses treatment modalities, interdisciplinary insights from bioethics to disability studies, and personal narratives reflecting on lived experiences.
A Real Affliction: BPD, Culture, and Stigma is an interview podcast that explores how we live with, treat, advocate for, write about, and conceptualize borderline personality disorder, as well as common co-occurring challenges like complex PTSD, eating disorders, and substance use disorder, all of which I’ve experienced. My guests and I will also discuss how literature, film, television, photography, dance, philosophy, the history of medicine, feminist and disability studies, nature, and bioethics reflect, illuminate, and impact the experience and cultural perceptions of BPD. The podcast’s goal is to increase access to effective, compassionate care. Episodes are released twice a month.
What responsibility does a writer/director have when presenting a female character who appears to have BPD traits? Following the series finale of Euphoria, Sam Levinson’s controversial television drama, I discuss the dramatic shift in his writing for Cassie, played by Sydney Sweeney, in the third and final season.
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