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.
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Communication strategies for people with BPD and their treatment providers (00:22:26)
How can people with BPD and their clinicians communicate more effectively and compassionately with each other? In this solo episode, I draw on my personal experiences and my study of narrative medicin...
“You can't necessarily compare your trauma to someone else's”: Social worker Samantha Dellosso (00:33:16)
How does the health care system condition how we see our mental health treatment and diagnoses? In this interview—an excerpt from a much longer conversation—I talk with Samantha Dellosso, a social wor...
“You’re talking about me”: Sara from the Bold Beautiful Borderline podcast (00:33:52)
How does BPD impact reproductive choices? In this candid interview, Sara Abbott, the host and producer of the #1 Bold Beautiful Borderline podcast, talks with me about how BPD is affecting her decisio...
Still Life: The Posthumously Published Diary of Lara Gilbert (00:26:21)
What can we learn from the posthumously published diary of Lara Gilbert, a young Canadian woman with BPD traits who suffered from complex PTSD in the 1990s? In this episode, I read excerpts from I Mig...
"I learn about resilience from my garden": Solara Goldwynn of Royal Roads University (00:29:00)
What is the relationship between BPD and food security? BPD and food insecurity are prevalent among university students, and research shows that poor diets, both in terms of insufficient calories and ...
“We need a society where we don’t step over mentally ill people”: Discussing bioethics with Lucy Yanow (00:31:00)
Why do people living with mental illness, including BPD, need to think about bioethics? Because ordinary citizens can now make life-and-death decisions for themselves and others. As laws and regulatio...
Complex trauma is in our house now: Courtenay Stallings, author of Laura’s Ghost: Women Speak About Twin Peaks (00:42:09)
Why is Laura Palmer a heroine for many of us? Because David Lynch's depiction of her in the Twin Peaks franchise was one of the first and remains one of the most powerful depictions of complex trauma ...
“I thought that mental health problems were something that you caught while young”: Lucy Yanow (00:27:59)
Can recreational drugs be used to treat BPD in controlled environments? In this interview, I talk with Lucy Yanow, who holds a master’s degree in Bioethics and Society and formerly worked as a midwife...
The book that saves lives: Mishell Baker’s Borderline (00:44:26)
How can an urban fantasy novel save lives? By depicting a protagonist with BPD who is resourceful, loyal, and heroic. In Borderline, the first book in the Arcadia Project trilogy, author and BPD survi...
“People with BPD are not a different kind of person”: Dr. Alexander Kriss, author of Borderline (00:42:10)
What can a psychoanalyst learn from patients with BPD? In this interview, Dr. Alexander Kriss, author of the recently published Borderline: Biography of a Personality Disorder, shares insights gained ...
“It's Upon Us to Widen That Lens”: Dr. Merri Lisa Johnson, author of Girl in Need of a Tourniquet (00:41:01)
Why should we draw on the field of disability studies to envision, treat, and talk about BPD? In this second and final part of my interview with Professor Lisa Johnson, author of Girl in Need of a Tou...
“A Vulnerability Artist Who Fights Ableism”: Dr. Merri Lisa Johnson on BPD (00:47:00)
What does writing from the frontline of BPD look like? If the author is borderline up-ender Dr. Lisa Johnson, it looks and sounds like a witty, raw, and dazzling conflagration. In this interview, she ...
Movement therapy for BPD with psychotherapist Ellis Amdur (00:20:44)
Can movement therapy support people with BPD? In this interview, psychotherapist, licensed martial artist, and acclaimed writer Ellis Amdur describes his success with teaching baduanjin qigong, a Chin...
“There is no final destination for a human being”: Psychotherapist Ellis Amdur (00:31:25)
How do therapists come to think of BPD after a long career? In this conversation with Ellis Amdur—a retired psychotherapist, award-winning writer, and licensed martial artist—he offers his perspective...
“He was provoking all these symptoms he had wanted to cure”: Nina Shope, author of Asylum (00:35:00)
How have power dynamics between doctors and patients changed over the past century and a half? In my second and final interview with Nina Shope, author of the award-winning historical novel Asylum, we...
“I was fascinated with showing the things behind hysteria that were being erased”: Nina Shope on Asylum (00:25:45)
What did BPD look like in the 19th century? It looked like hysteria, a phenomenon that puzzled doctors and fascinated the public. In this episode, I interview Nina Shope, author of the award-winning h...
"Insurance companies are breaking the law": Paula Tusiani-Eng of Emotions Matter (00:25:18)
How can we access expensive care? In the US, being diagnosed with BPD is often the first step in an odyssey through a complex and unjust health care system. In the second part of my interview with Pau...
What I wish I’d known about getting a PhD with BPD (00:14:45)
In this solo bonus episode, I talk about what I learned while getting my MA and PhD at Berkeley and offer tips for anyone who wants to pursue a higher education degree while managing their BPD. It can...
“How do I meet other people with BPD?”: Paula Tusiani-Eng of Emotions Matter (00:32:11)
What do people with BPD need? When Paula Tusiani-Eng co-founded a BPD non-profit after the tragic loss of her sister Pamela, she realized that we often need more community support. In this interview, ...
“I Love Us”: Melanie Goldman on living with and treating BPD (00:51:13)
How can people with BPD find their voice? In this candid interview, the radiant and loving Melanie Goldman (@mindovermelanie) tells me her story of lived experience with BPD, from the shock of the dia...
Is No Longer Human about BPD—and should we even ask that question? (00:25:40)
Can we diagnose the narrator of Osamu Dazai’s novel, No Longer Human, with BPD or some other diagnosis? And does it make sense to try? In this bonus summer solo episode, I give my perspective as a Jap...
“These are like emotional, psychological Trojan horses": American McGee's BPD Rabbit (00:40:44)
Can a stuffed animal help people to cope with BPD? In this episode, I interview American McGee, the celebrated video game designer and mastermind behind the mental health Plushie Dreadfuls line. We ta...
“Folks with BPD are some of the brightest lights in my life”: Dr. Sara Masland (00:25:15)
Who gets BPD, and are they likely to recover? In this second and final part of my interview with Dr. Sara Masland, she and I discuss the gender distribution for BPD, contemplate the prognosis for peop...
“The BPD diagnosis is an entry point to understanding how you can get to recovery”: Dr. Sara Masland (00:31:38)
Why do we need a generalist approach to treating BPD? Because there are nearly 6000 treatment-seeking people with BPD to every certified, specialist clinician in the United States. In this episode, Dr...
“We’re starting young” with fighting stigma: Jessie Shepherd on Millie the Cat (00:17:45)
Why create a children's book about BPD? This is the second half of my interview with Jessie Shepherd, who is a writer, licensed clinical mental health counselor, licensed professional counselor, and d...
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