I get annoyed as hell when people assume someone they know has BPD because they exhibit behavior they don’t like. It’s infuriating! “Oh, this person’s really dramatic all the time so I just assume she has BPD.” Or “Oh my ex wasn’t able to give me what I needed because he has depression so I’ve decided to say that he has BPD to justify leaving him.” Or one I saw today elsewhere on the internets: “She has these three diagnosed disorders she’s working on, but I’ve decided (against a professional’s opinion) that she has BPD. Because she has issues and I refuse to believe that any other disorder could be ‘this bad’. And therefore I can post about it on the internet without her knowing because I’m so goddamn intelligent.”

Why. Are. We. The. Scapegoats.