Spoiler alert!


I have been watching the series Clickbait on netlix and I am only on episode 6, but the character sarah resonates with me so much. I am not sure if she is supposed to have BPD (maybe the series explains it later),  but the way she is portrayed makes me feel so seen and validated. 

Her extreme happiness in the relationships beginning, her suicidality when she reaches out for support and is bitterly dissapointed. Her very accurate description and portrayal of mental agony....the splitting when her brother tries to help her. Normally when tv portrays bpd they fails to see our pain and focus on the behaviour that feels erratic to others...

I have never felt this seen by a series before. There have been great series like homeland or spinning out, that showed very successfull women batteling bipolar. I loved those since it made me hopeful that despite my very serious mental ilness I can still be successful. But it is just not the same as seeing a character that strikes you as a fellow BPD sufferer. 

This is a weird post I know but I just feel happy about it right now and I haven't been very happy recently, so I just wanted to share. I hope the rest of the season doesn't dissapoint me in terms of portrayal of mental ilness.