 So this channel MinuteVideos just made a video about borderline personality disorder and they're absolutely full of crap but doesn't matter. What is up 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 what I like to do is pull different topics from the YouTube community to try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional well-being. So for any of that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification and I got some exciting news for you you know my book Rewire Your Anger well I've been telling you all that I want to do an audio book and I kept hitting these like weird little bumps and trying to figure it out well I have finally started recording it with my own voice so I am narrating it and my editor Zach he has been editing it I'm hoping hoping to have the audio version to you guys either by this weekend or early next week so make sure you're following me on Instagram and Twitter so you don't miss out if you're somebody who's been waiting for the audio version of this book it will be out very very soon all right so anyways minute videos what is minute videos all right so minute videos the way they brand themselves is that they take um story submissions and then they animate them right well for those of you who are familiar with the YouTuber Jarvis Johnson he actually just did a video a few weeks ago or a month ago on one of the other channels which is owned by the same place that owns minute videos which is called that happened all right and so I I can relate to a lot of what's being said in the video and and can say yeah no that that aligns with my experience and the problem is that because this isn't real there are a bunch of people in the comments like expending their emotional energy and being emotionally manipulated by this fake story where they're like sending their condolences and stuff um my heart goes out to the little girl and their her father and all it serves is to add to the comment metrics so if you want to learn more about what's going on with this company that owns this I highly suggest you check out Jarvis's video I'll link it down in the description all right but basically just in a nutshell all of these places what they do is they market themselves as taking real life stories and then sharing them with other people but through the investigation that Jarvis did as well as an email that he got what they're doing is they're hiring writers okay they're hiring writers to write stories and then what they do is they know that animation is a big thing on youtube so they they find somebody to do some voice acting and then they animate that story but they sell them as being real stories and Jarvis discusses some of the issues with that well I saw that minute videos posted a video about borderline personality disorder youtube was recommending it to me probably because I watch a lot of mental health videos I talk about borderline personality disorder on my channel so I just sat down with my beautiful girlfriend Tristan and we decided to watch this video and like they're clearly full of crap and this clearly isn't a real story so anyways let's talk about is this a problem when it comes to mental health so first off first off this the story quote unquote starts off by explaining the symptoms of borderline personality disorder all right for those of you unfamiliar with borderline personality disorder there are nine key symptoms all right and in order to be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder first off never diagnose yourself second off make sure you see a mental health professional in order to do so any of my videos or any videos you see on youtube they're just to kind of get the wheels turning and say oh this sounds familiar I can relate to this so you can go to your doctor or your therapist or psychiatrist or psychologist and say hey I have some of these symptoms what do you think right but anyways they they explain the nine symptoms of borderline personality disorder and like as I was watching it I paused it and I ran over to get my copy of the dsm I'm like because it didn't sound right it didn't sound right the symptoms that they were saying in the video so I was following along with the dsm and like either a some of the symptoms that they were explaining weren't one of the symptoms or b they were explaining the symptom wrong all right so there's definitely an issue with that all right so let's say you're somebody who was watching this video to see like maybe if you have a symptom because they're trying to say you might have these symptoms too right but if you're explaining them in the wrong way or not using the proper diagnostic criteria that can be an issue you might be struggling with something else borderline personality disorder is often misdiagnosed as something else a lot of people with bpd they're misdiagnosed with things like bipolar or they might be diagnosed with anxiety or depression or a variety of different other mental illnesses this is why it's always important to go see a mental health professional and not just assume that you have a specific disorder all right so the next part of this video they finally got into the part where this guy the guy is sharing his story is explaining his personal experience with it one thing that I will mention is that it's interesting that they had a male do this this story and here's the thing here's the thing and I want to make it very clear it seems like like based on what we see with studies and statistics that more women struggle with borderline personality disorder but some of the most recent studies actually show that it's pretty even if not 50-50 maybe like 60 percent women 40 percent men right but the thing is men are less likely to go get help for their mental health or get diagnosed with this this type of disorder all right so it just was kind of interesting to me that they chose to use a male since more women actually talk about this disorder or being diagnosed with it right but anyways anyways this dude finally gets to the part where he's talking about his disorder and there were a few things where he talks about you know having the symptoms and it's it's kind of relatable and now one of the things is is that he says that he has all nine symptoms and he also says something to the effect of if you even have some of these symptoms symptoms you probably have borderline personality disorder and that's not true like I said based on the dsm which mental health professionals go out of to diagnose somebody you have to have at least five so if you were only struggling with one or two of those symptoms such as like black and white thinking or impulsivity if those were the only two symptoms you had you would never ever ever get diagnosed with borderline personality disorder right so that is actually some misinformation that they're stating in that video so this next part when he was talking about um a situation that scared him he's talking about being with his girlfriend and he went into this dissociative like rage and here's how he explained it a few months back things got out of hand i blacked out and had a major dissociative event where i actually was someone else like a split personality so those of you who follow my channel and listen to what i say like i try to let you know i am not the person who knows everything nobody knows everything so when i heard of this because i know what dissociation is and i know a lot of people struggle with this but from my experience my studies my research and all the information i read nothing i've ever heard lined up with what this guy was talking about all right like he explained it like it was somebody else taking over and you know in his dissociative episode right and what i did was i went over to the discord server join it if you haven't yet get some support anyways i i pinged everybody i was like yo does anybody in here a struggle with dissociation and b if you do have you ever gone into like a dissociative rage right where you just like completely disconnected from reality completely zoned out if you will and and you just went into this this rage and you didn't even remember right and everybody who replied to me in discord said no and i was like exactly right so it is possible for somebody to go into like a blackout and it can feel as though somebody else is like controlling them or whatever but this isn't dissociation all right oftentimes especially if somebody's struggling with borderline personality disorder because of the emotional dysregulation they can get into this extreme form of anger but they're still present they're still aware they are not um unaware of what's happening right there but the problem is is like while they're in that rage they can't stop there is no putting on the brakes there is no dialing back you see what i mean so again this is a misinformation that minute videos is putting out there which doesn't quite line up with borderline personality disorder and actually like to explain to you a little bit more about why this can potentially be dangerous on this platform is because this channel has almost a million subscribers this video has over a hundred thousand views and the number one comment on it is this and they say that they have all nine of the symptoms but like we discussed if the nine symptoms that minute videos just explained about borderline personality disorder are not the correct symptoms then it is potentially dangerous that somebody is saying that they have it even though those aren't the correct symptoms all right so the last thing you know does it matter does it matter yes and no for all of the reasons that i've listed yes it does matter but i'm a glasses half full kind of guy all right i'm glad that you know even though they're doing it in the wrong way there is a large channel bringing more awareness to an illness like borderline personality disorder discussing the stigma around it and they encourage people to get help all right so they talk about getting therapy they talk about medications that might help i've talked about this in other videos about bpd there's not a specific medication for borderline personality disorder but there are medications for symptoms for example antidepressants for depression anti anxiety for anxiety and so on and there's also like mood stabilizers and things like that all right so i guess the small little like silver lining of this crappy video with a fake story is that people might actually go out and seek a mental health professional all right but let me know down in the comments below do you find any issue with fake stories about having mental illness all right let me know down in the comments okay because they've done some other videos like this and so has um that channel that happened so i might do more videos so let me know what your what your concerns are maybe i'll do some more videos on this all right anyways that's how i got for this video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because i make a ton of videos and a huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon you are all amazing and if you would like to get some exclusive videos and get on our group calls or individual calls click the top of that patreon 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