 So I just finished binge watching Daredevil Season 3 over on Netflix and they introduced a brand new character named Dex and he has borderline personality disorder. But how did the show do with showing the signs and symptoms of this mental illness? But everybody this is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about mental health and something fun that I like to do is take different like movies and TV shows that I'm watching and see how they depict mental illness like did they do it good? Did they do it bad? What are they doing? So if you're into that kind of stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton a ton of videos. In this video I will be doing kind of a mental health review of season three of Daredevil over on Netflix. Great great great great series I love that series so much but anyways there's gonna be spoilers so if you haven't watched it yet you might want to leave come back later after you finish the season but I was late to watching this season so if you're a Daredevil fan you probably should have beat me to watching this already. First off first off before we jump into Dex aka Bullseye let's get this out of the way Karen Page what are you doing? Did you learn nothing from the Shane Dawson Jake Paul series? We've all been lied to. We've been manipulated by associate path who doesn't care about the truth or about who he hurts or anyone other than himself. You can't just go around labeling people sociopaths even if it's kingpin. That was a joke calm down but yeah as I go through this review and talking about borderline personality disorder like I do want to say like you know some people are going to look at you know it's just perpetuating a stigma and all this and like I don't know it's a TV show and I don't think they stigmatized it but I do want to point out some things wrong for anybody who watched this season is just wondering like is this what borderline personality disorder looks like because they did get some stuff wrong but they actually got some stuff right too. So for those of you who haven't watched this series and don't plan on watching it anyways there's a new character his name is Benjamin Point Dexter he goes by Dex he's an FBI agent and he ends up turning into Bullseye but they don't really give him the name Bullseye rumors are that he's coming back next season and at the very end of this this season there was like kind of like a little like teaser that he's turning into Bullseye but anyways he gets the attention of Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin and Kingpin starts looking into him to see what this FBI agent's all about and he pulls all these records so let's talk about you know the flashback where Kingpin is reading about Dex's like pass and his diagnosis so basically what happened was Dex was a baseball player and he's just got this killer arm well I wouldn't build Bullseye have a killer arm right and his coach like sits him right and Dex is like throwing a perfect game and he gets like kind of upset at the coach well Bill Bullseye is like superpower is that he can like just like nail any shot that he wants he can like bank stuff off and stuff so anyways he gets upset that his coach bends them he takes the baseball bounces it off a pole hits the coach in the head kills the coach right so he goes to get assessed psychologically now around this time Dex is probably I don't know if they said his age in this scene but he's probably around 12 or 13 I'm guessing many ways he's talking to a therapist but anyway she writes down on her notepad as she's talking to Dex borderline personality disorder and then when she asks him about like how do you feel about you know what you did and he gives his answer and then right underneath it she writes psychotic tendencies okay something that they definitely got wrong is that you cannot diagnose a child with borderline personality disorder like it is like a rule that you cannot diagnose somebody with a personality disorder until they are an adult one of the reasons being is that their brain is not even fully formed yet so yes it is possible for kids to have mental illness but a personality disorder isn't something that any kind of mental health professional would diagnose now going back to the stigma like did they stigmatize this because I know a lot of people are gonna watch this and say hey not everybody with BPD is violent yes that's true but I think the little like loophole that they gave themselves was that they wrote down that he had psychotic tendencies okay so what was interesting is it kind of like reminded me of Dexter I don't know if any of you watched Dexter love that show love that show so much like if I get bored I might like go back and rewatch it and make some videos on it but anyways like it's almost like he has this urge this craving to kill and his his therapist was trying to like get him to kind of like keep it under control his tendencies under control and Dex ended up joining like the military and his therapist passed away I think when he was a maybe 18 19 years old it looked like he was like older in high school but anyways Dex ends up getting a job at a suicide hotline and it's just like it's really like creepy because you know he like acts you know like you know I'm a good person I'm trying to help people but he kind of uses a suicide hotline to like I don't know like manipulate people into doing something like he's like hey why would you do this to yourself why don't you just you know shoot your stepdad since he's a jerk well anyways at the suicide hotline there's a woman named Julie all right and Dex develops feelings for her so now let's talk about you know the intense emotions people with borderline personality disorder feel so Dex like got this obsession right like he talks about like oh yeah I go out on dates with this girl and you know we have great talks or whatever but then you find out that he pretty much just stalks her and like watches her and he like follows her on her running path and he has like a picture of her in his apartment and like some of this stuff is very realistic like like I mentioned before I was never diagnosed with borderline personality disorder but I can definitely relate to the symptoms I know any of you watching this who have struggled with BPD you can identify with some of these symptoms like these intense emotions like somebody even maybe showing you I don't know like a decent amount of attention or there they just fit into this like box of who you would be attracted to maybe they're you know pretty smart kind nice whatever it is like there's these intense emotions not like hey I like that girl maybe I'll ask her out on a date and see how things go it's like I'm in love with her right like these are things that I use to struggle with a lot and like you know as I started working on my mental health I had to start balancing that like listen Chris you don't have to fall in love with every single woman you meet you know what I mean so that part of it like yeah that that does happen to people with BPD but on the other hand like the obsession and the stalking I'm sure it has happened before but I wouldn't say this is like a depiction of all people with borderline personality disorder like they might get a little obsessive and like text you a million times call you a ton but like like these are these are like kind of but they wouldn't I don't know it's just from my experience I haven't met many people with borderline personality disorder who go to like this level of stalking that Dex did so lastly let's talk about one of the main symptoms of borderline personality disorder which is black and white thinking which is also called splitting okay for those of you don't know what that is when people with borderline personality disorder have relationships with anybody it could be a friend a family member it could be just somebody at the grocery store there's an all good or all bad category for them right and depending on how that person treats the person with borderline personality disorder they can switch boom boom boom like like that right this is why it's very hard for people with borderline personality disorder to have relationships not just intimate relationships but with friends with family members because they'll love you one minute and hate you the next minute so Kingpin is you know he's a guy who's always like manipulating situations moving pieces around and all of that so it seemed like Kingpin took advantage of Dexter's point Dexter's borderline personality disorder and he knew how that was so Kingpin helps out Dex he helps out Dex in little ways just tiny little ways because what Kingpin's doing is he's moving to the good side of Dex right and if you accept this unlike everyone in your life I will never abandon you the decision is yours like in that scene right there Kingpin even says like I will never abandon you and that's something that people borderline personality disorder struggle with this intense fear of abandonment and in most cases it's imagined right so one of the things that Kingpin did to manipulate the situation was he put Julie in Dex's like situation right and then Julie got freaked out and left so now Dex is feeling abandoned so Kingpin was able to play into that and say I would never abandon you so is this something that could really happen absolutely absolutely 100% so if anybody watching this is starting with borderline personality disorder you have to be careful about being manipulated by people who understand your mental illness now what's interesting is a lot of people borderline personality disorder get accused of being manipulative but it's also positive for somebody to manipulate somebody with BPD so that's how Kingpin gets the loyalty of Dex and gets Dex to like you know murder people and do all sorts of crazy stuff that's how Kingpin does it but dare devil my boy Matt Murdoch he ends up telling Dex what really happened and Kingpin ended up murdering Julie and he helps Dex find out and that's when Dex turns on Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin so as you can see like Kingpin went from like this father figure this person who would never abandon Dex and Kingpin also said some things to Dex like where he is putting his his fiance who turns into his wife Vanessa above Dex and that could be very very hurtful to somebody with borderline personality disorder because they have that fear of abandonment they have that fear that someone's just gonna leave them they're gonna get pushed to the side by somebody else so Dex like even before all this stuff happened he went and got this painting that Kingpin wanted because he thought he can get you know he could be you know the light of Kingpin's eyes and all of that so but what you see is this switch that Kingpin goes from from the white to the black area like they're either all good or all bad it's difficult for people with borderline personality disorder to say okay maybe this was a one-off or maybe this person was having a bad day like they see you in one of two categories that's why it's really really important for people with borderline personality disorder to recognize when this splitting starts to happen and kind of like think rationally something I always suggest is to write down traits of the person and say what is true what is false right like what are the real characteristics of this person and what are the lies that my brain is telling me right now such as this person doesn't love me they don't care about me they want to get rid of me and all of that because when we put it on paper we can kind of acknowledge like the crazy places that our brain starts to go but anyways anyways again like I said I don't think they stigmatized borderline personality disorder again they said Dex had some psychotic traits so I don't really think they were just saying like hey BPD people are dangerous and they're gonna turn into evil super villains or anything like that so like but anyways if you watch the episodes where they talked about borderline personality disorder I would love to know your thoughts or if you're somebody who just stumbled across this video and you struggle with BPD like let me know your experiences with some of the things that I talked about like intense emotions or black and white thinking all right let's have a talk down in the comments below anyways that's all I got for you with this video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure to subscribe and ring that notification bell because I'm always making videos and a huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon you are all amazing and if you would like to help me spread a message of hope when it comes to mental health click or tap on that patreon icon right there all right thanks so much for watching I'll see you next time