As someone who works in the mental health field, I hear you. It's appalling. I'm sorry you have to deal with shit like the original post in this thread.

Thank you. Having BPD and bipolar, I am constantly shocked and saddened by how stigmatized BPD is and how people armchair diagnose it.

BPD is in the DSM. And I haven’t heard anything to suggest that this was this woman’s diagnoses...I have BPD and j would never try to manipulate someone into suicide...

`Borderline Personality Disorder is characterized by extreme shifts in how I view myself and my environment. I LOVE you in all caps, but if you do something that I dislike, then I HATE you in all caps. This extends to my view of self and so I swing wildly from thinking I am the best to thinking I should just die. BPD…

Yeah I’ve got borderline and if anything I have too much empathy. We can also respond well to medication and therapy. This chick is a sociopath.

Absolutely. Your response is both reassuring and disconcerting.

Master’s level social worker here. BPD is still in the DSM, but this would much more likely be antisocial personality disorder, which is what most people think of when they use the term “sociopath”

Yes it is: http://www.psi.uba.ar/academica/carr…

Borderline Personality disorder is not in the DSM, anymore?

Other articles have even implied a more romantic involvement. What cruelty and betrayal from someone that he trusted.

So, “How dare people feel good about doing good”? That’s kind of a shit perspective to take.

When “normal” people do it, yeah. But I kind of feel this isn’t that. Looks like her whole purpose of being there is taking pictures and posting them on social media attract funding for the organisation that sent her. These aren’t photos of people she just happened to meet, these are orchestrated photo-ops.

“In terms of Debra Messing, I’ve got to think that there are other people who could do the job just as well or better”

Seriously? How the fuck is it eye roll worthy for a person to spend their vacation/free time doing something for the benefit of humanity?! Even if they’re just doing it to impress other people they’re still fucking doing it.

Oh, I dunno. I’ve traveled around in some 3rd world countries.

People take a shit load of pictures. Big deal.

Maybe you just used a bad example, but I don’t see anything wrong with that scenario.

Okay please explain this shade to me. I am a white woman and have been to Ghana several times, I have a deep love for the culture and people, as well as the beautiful landscape. From my perspective, no Ghanaians have an issue or provide shade when I am there. Obviously I stick out like a sore thumb and am stared at…

You can have a say in who our President is. You could vote for a 3rd party candidate in the general election, after they’ve won their primaries. There are going to be two notable ones in this election, Gary Johnson and Jill Stein.

Also, the May 2015 memo is irrelevant to Sanders since even as late as April 30, 2015, he said he was running as an independent. He didn’t officially declare for the Democratic party until November of that year...