I volunteer on Crisis Text Line and have spoken to a number of people who are self-diagnosed — some older, some young. I don’t know where people have gotten the

I volunteer on Crisis Text Line and have spoken to a number of people who are self-diagnosed — some older, some young. I don’t know where people have gotten their info when they explain that their emotions are complicated by DID or because they think have BPD. I can imagine a number of people spend a lot of time on social media since CTL has outreach initiatives through the different platforms or we’ve gone viral on different TikTok platforms. We celebrate the publicity, but what do we know of the effect on someone wondering if they too share in a mental health condition? Where do we draw the line between exposure to mental health issues and over-diagnosing? I can say that a lot of people who come to our service have legitimate concerns while others might just be teens with typical angst, except now they are told theirs is diagnosable as X. DID = dissociative identity disorder BPD = borderline personality disorder (Cool it with the acronym policing. Both acronyms are referenced in the link. Reading comments isn’t the same as reading the source.)