- So this channel, MinuteVideos,
just made a video about borderline personality disorder
and they're absolutely full of crap.
But, doesn't matter.
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So anyways, MinuteVideos.
What is MinuteVideos?
All right, so MinuteVideos, the way they brand themselves
is that they take story submissions
and then they animate 'em, 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 their other channels,
which is owned by the same place that owns MinuteVideos,
which is called Actually Happened.
- And so I can relate
to a lot of what's being said in the video,
and can say yeah, no, that aligns with my experience.
And the problem is, that because it's just a reel,
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.
- My heart goes out to the little girl and her father.
- And all it serves is to add to the comment metrics.
- So if you wanna learn more about what's going on
with this company that owns this,
I highly suggest you check out Jarvis' 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 live stories,
and then sharing 'em 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.
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 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 MinuteVideos posted a video
about borderline personality disorder.
YouTube was recommending it to me,
probably 'cause 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 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, the story, quote unquote,
starts off by explaining the symptoms
of borderline personality disorder.
For those of you unfamiliar
with borderline personality disorder,
there are nine key symptoms.
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've seen on YouTube,
they're just to kinda 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?
But anyways, they explain the nine symptoms
of borderline personality disorder
and as I was watching it, I paused it
and I ran over to get my copy of the DSM,
'cause 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 either A, some of the symptoms that they were explaining
weren't one of the symptoms, or B,
they were explaining the symptom wrong.
So there's definitely an issue with that.
So let's say you're somebody who was watching this video
to see like maybe if you have a symptom.
'Cause they're trying to say,
you might have these symptoms too.
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 lotta 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.
So the next part of this video,
they finally got into a part, where this guy,
the guy sharing his story,
is explaining his personal experience with it.
One thing that I will mention,
is that it's interesting that they have
a male do this story.
And here's the thing, here's the thing.
And I wanna make it very clear.
It seems 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% women, 40% men.
But the thing is, men are less likely
to go get help for their mental health
or get diagnosed with this type of disorder.
So it just was kinda interesting to me
that they chose to use a male
since more women actually talk about this disorder
or being diagnosed with it.
But anyways, anyways, this dude finally gets to a part
where he's talking about his disorder.
And there were a few things
where he talks about having the symptoms,
and it's kinda relatable.
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,
you probably have borderline personality disorder,
(making buzzing noise) 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 are only struggling
with one or two of those symptoms,
such as 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.
So that is actually some misinformation
that they're stating in that video.
So this next part, when he was talking about
a situation that scared him,
he's talking about being with his girlfriend.
And he went into this dissociative rage.
And here's how he explained it.
- [Patient] 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, 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 lotta people struggle with this,
but from my experience, my studies, my research,
and all the information I've read,
nothing I've ever heard, lined up
with what this guy was talking about.
He explained it, like it was somebody else taking over
in his dissociative episode.
What I did was, I went over to the Discord server, join it,
if you haven't yet, get some support,
but anyways, I pinged everybody and I was like, yo,
does anybody in here, A, struggle with dissociation
and B, if you do, have you ever gone into
a dissociative rage?
Where you just like completely disconnected from reality,
completely zoned out, if you will,
and you just went into this rage
and you didn't even remember?
And everybody who replied to me in Discord, said no.
And I was like, exactly.
So it possible for somebody to go into like a blackout,
and it can feel as thought somebody else
is controlling them, or whatever,
but this isn't dissociation.
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 unaware of what's happening right there.
But the problem is, is 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 some misinformation
that MinuteVideos is putting out there
which doesn't quite line up
with borderline personality disorder.
And actually, 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 100,000 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 MinuteVideos 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.
So the last thing, does it matter?
Does it matter?
Yes and no.
For all the reasons that I've listed, yes, it does matter.
But, I'm a glass is half full kinda guy.
I'm glad that,
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.
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, anti-depressants for depression
anti-anxiety for anxiety, and so on.
And there's also like mood stabilizers and things like that.
So, I guess the small little silver lining
of this crappy video with a fake story,
is that people might actually go out
and seek a mental health professional.
But let me know down in the comments below.
Do you find any issue with fake stories
about having mental illness?
Let me know, down in the comments,
because they've done some other videos like this
and so has that channel, That Happened.
I might do more videos, so let me know
what your concerns are
and maybe I'll do some more videos on this.
But anyways, that's all I got for this video.
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