 I have done some research, there is a population of 528,448 in my province. There are 7.4 billion people in the world. There's an estimate of about 1.6% to 5.9% of that population consisting of 7.4 billion has BPD, about 11 people who live less than within an hour of me, claim to have BPD. That's not counting the people in my province I've met online and in support group chats consisting of people in my province, if I were to include them I would lose count.
 People lately are literally just throwing large mental illness labels around like they're confetti and one of the ones they seem to like to throw around the most is BPD, because I actually have that and have been officially diagnosed with it. (along with bipolar, that one gets thrown around quite often as well. but I don't have that.) people are literally listing out a long variety of things they 'have' but when i ask them if they've been diagnosed, they say no. like, when you're dealing with mental illnesses and doctors, in the beginning before they can really see what is going on with you, they may mention a large quantity of things that may be going on there. when I was younger and my health file wasn't large and therefore not a whole lot of info on me, bipolar, ptsd (although unreasonable because I've never had trauma) and other stuff had been mentioned. people seem to take that and go away with it as being 'diagnosed' when it isn't actually written in their file. the amount of people claiming to have these disorders is crazy, and some of them are like 13, and i know for a fact (because I was that age 3 years ago??) that they will not diagnose a 13 year old with any of that (not in my area, can't speak for elsewhere, keep in mind these are all people who live in this area.) because there is a humongous chance that they will grow out of it and it will be a misdiagnosis.
 For example, I was speaking to a girl today who claimed to have an eating disorder, bipolar, borderline mentality stability disorder, borderline personality disorder, depression, anxiety and ADHD. This would be fine, however, it is false. Just minutes before, she had told me that she had never been to a psychiatrist or doctor because her parents 'don't believe in mental illnesses and will not take her.' I almost exploded. Sounds more like Hypochondria to me.
How do you guys deal with this?? I've seen it within the last few weeks more than ever.