BPD and Status Updates
Wednesday July 8, 2009
A contributor to the BPD Forum noticed an interesting phenomenon recently-- he or she noted that Facebook status updates (and Twitter tweets, for that matter) often reflect emotional states, and wondered whether lots of "ups and downs" in status updates could be indicative of the BPD symptom of emotional instability.
It may sound trivial, but I think its a very interesting question. For folks with BPD- does the content of your status updates or tweets tend to fluctuate depending on your emotions?
Comments
Absolutely, I would say that someone would get a fairly accurate view of my mental state from some of my updates…I try not to be too dramatic, and don’t want lots of attention over them, but I have to admit that it is sometimes nice when someone does catch it and responds to see how I’m doing.
Mine is deffineatly like that so much so that I have people who will not even acknowledge that I am there. Sometimes posting an emotion makes me fell better but most times i just feel worse.
Of course. i will only post something if it pertains to how i am feeling. never a sad comment when i’m happy and never a happy one when i’m sad. for some reason, i feel like people will never know the truth otherwise about how i’m feeling because i wont tell them flat out. also, i feel like i’d be lieing somehow.
I actually find that when I am in an emotional state or turmoil, I don’t post at all. I am too afraid of posting my real feelings and turning someone away.
absolutely yes!! i have actually posted things like…if i have sunglasses on and smile but the tears are streaming down my face, do you think anyone will notice i am crying?? my emotions are all over the place and my posts definitely reflect the mood!!
My face book people are church friends that care about how Im doing .Its a good way to stay in touch during the week with my friends that I feel are to busy for me other times ,I dont have to be afraid to put things in writing .
My tweets on Twitter definitely reflect my up-down BPD moods. Facebook less so as I rarely use it, but yep, Twitter would reflect it a lot. I rarely specifically say, “I’m feeling angry” or “I’m depressed” or whatever, but my mood would often be evident from the tone of the tweet.
Although I use the account associated with my blog much less than my main account, I would be much more direct on it as it’s anonymous. I have, for example, talked about self-harm on it, whereas I’d be more measured on my ‘main’ account.