This is something that has been scratching at the back of my mind lately, wondering if my own anecdotes are part of a larger pool of data, or just anecdotes. I suppose this would apply more to my BPD family member than the situation that originally brought me here, but have any of you observed a tendency in your BPD loved one or family member to romanticize incarcerated people or notorious criminals?
True crime is a big fad right now, especially among female readership and podcast listeners. They recently made a film about Ted Bundy and casted Zac Efron as him. Some of the reactions to this media content by...certain people...has been bizarre and kind of disturbing. When you read authors li
Mine (at least the one I have talked about here) wasn't, as far as I know. But a lot of them seem to be. And I'm wondering why this is. My family member, who has a diagnosis, absolutely is. She has followed along with every spiritual fad in four decades, since the 1970s. In the 80s it was Japanese dieting. In the early 90s it was Deepak Chopra's pseudoscientific garbage that I had to listen to. I learned about the word "quantum" from that, and then later when I became an adult and studied cosmology and physics in college I learned what the word really meant in a physics context. After the 90s she moved onto The Secret. She also has David Icke's books (you know, where there are reptilian, a