It has come to my attention that people are misconstruing my previous BPD awareness journal as saying that "everyone that’s indirectly involved with the situation (whenever they know the situation or not) is mental" or even that I "legitimately thinks everyone leaving FA has a mental disorder".

Even though I believe that most of you who are watching me understood what I was getting at, I want to address this for those people who are being linked my page from outside sources.


Firstly, I specifically stated in said journal that "a lot of individuals I was interacting with" (as in, specifically talking to) were at risk of BPD. There were about four or five people in particular, which reminded me of my experience first-hand with the effects of this particular disorder. I know how—if untreated—how destructive the consequences can be. Having been reminded of this, I was inspired to make a journal.

Now, clearly I'm not a doctor - this is why my journal attempted to do nothing more than give a few warning signs and then links to a resource page for more information.

I take issues of mental disorders very, very seriously, and I'm bothered that a genuine and innocuous journal is being twisted into being some sort of political statement. It's not a political statement.


Now, I understand that tone is very hard to convey online, but I have to stress: Any "smug" or "superior" sound to my posts isn't intentional. I struggle very much with communicating correctly, due to my specific mental disability, so I apologize for any failure on my end to phrase things in a way that sounds as I'm intending.

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Having said all of that, I am not sorry for raising awareness - this is an important topic to me. In the interests of providing more information, I will link a very helpful and informative video that I recommend for those wanting more info without my... "smug"... tone.

(Yes, I'm aware that the part about "smug tone" sounded smug. ;p That was the joke)