Trisha Paytas claims that obtaining a correct diagnosis for BPD was a turning point for her in understanding her behaviors.

“I feel like with like borderline like it is like one of those things where it's like probably hard to diagnose until it like slaps you in the face, right? It's like oh well this is I think when I finally got it in 2019, I think it was very like glaringly obvious. I think it was like this is this is ”

Borderline personality disorder is a complex, heterogeneous mental health condition fundamentally defined by dysregulation across several domains, with emotion dysregulation at its core.

“what one of the things that marcia did um was to restructure the different criteria borderline personality disorder in a way that that perhaps is more understandable and also makes more cohesive sense and to say that it's a disorder of dysregulation across a number of different domains”

Borderline personality disorder is a serious mental health condition that requires more empathy and understanding than it currently receives.

“So, this is, um, this is no joke. This is a very hardcore disorder that bears more empathy and understanding.”