Mad in Mexico: This essay addresses several debates surrounding “borderline personality disorder (BPD),” a highly stigmatized and gendered psychiatric label disproportionately applied to cisgender women and used to invalidate their experiences. There is a growing effort to destigmatize BPD, particularly on social media, and to advocate for better treatment. However, these movements may overlook long-standing feminist critiques of the diagnosis itself, as well as mad feminist interventions[1] that affirm borderline epistemologies while critiquing psychiatry. This essay questions how and why both mainstream and mad approaches to destigmatizing BPD appear to be situated in white, globally elite spaces.
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