Esme rant time, a rant of love for her, PS.
Esme's story is all too familiar.
Yes, we see multiple characters go through things and they get help and they get support.
But I think Esme's story is so important.
She is going through hell and no one seems to take notice.
And that's the issue with Mental Health and the related services.
Mental illness is everywhere and yet we are still so blind to it.
You see a girl being obsessed over her boyfriend and acting out intensely when she feels wronged, whether she was or not.
That's just a teenage girl being a teenage girl, except it isn't. Esme's emotional reactivity is a sign of illness but people would rather just push it off as teenage drama. Especially because a few hours later or the next day she's smiling like nothing bad has ever happened to her. But yet again, that rebound is just another sign of her illness.
Esme's story is too often what's happening to so many people.
Unrecognized or perhaps ignored mental illness.
I agree with the consensus that Esme has Borderline Personality Disorder, her case is kind of that 'classic' BPD case for lack of better words.
And it's a fact that BPD has such negative connotations to it, even and sometimes especially within the Mental Health field. I can tell you stories I've heard of the negative biases people hold against people with BPD. "They're just a Borderline."
It's like there's this notion that because they have a certain illness they can't be helped, and that's complete bull.
Getting back to Esme's actual storyline though. I pray that in the upcoming seasons we see people reach out to help Esme. And maybe Esme fights against it at first but that those around her don't give up on her. I hope someone advocates for her. I just want to see Esme get the help she deserves.
...I just wish I lived in a world where every person with Mental Health complications could get the help they deserve, that treatment would be given when asked for and given when needed even if not asked for. That's all I want.
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